As readers, we bear witness to Sterns thought process/conciseness perpetuated centuries later on the printed page. 228 years after Sterne’s last instalment of his memoir, Lydia Davis published her lone novel, The End of The Story. In it, an unmanned narrator reflects on her now lost relationship with a younger lover. Peppered across the book lie instances of frustration in conveying her story. Early on, her concern is with the naming of her two main characters. Worried that the name will carry a negative impact on the story she bobbles around calling “her Hannah, and then Mag, and then Anna again” (Davis 42). In the end, she chooses to keep them
As readers, we bear witness to Sterns thought process/conciseness perpetuated centuries later on the printed page. 228 years after Sterne’s last instalment of his memoir, Lydia Davis published her lone novel, The End of The Story. In it, an unmanned narrator reflects on her now lost relationship with a younger lover. Peppered across the book lie instances of frustration in conveying her story. Early on, her concern is with the naming of her two main characters. Worried that the name will carry a negative impact on the story she bobbles around calling “her Hannah, and then Mag, and then Anna again” (Davis 42). In the end, she chooses to keep them