The Short Stories of Lydia Davis Irony

The Short Stories of Lydia Davis Irony

The Irony of Prominent Magazines - “A Story of Stolen Salamis”

Davis expounds, “Then the incident was written up in one of the city’s more prominent magazines as an amusing and colourful urban incident.” It is ironic for the prominent magazines to report about an inconsequential episode like the burglary of salamis. Typically, such magazines would prioritize accounts concerning momentous instances.

The Irony of a “Companion for Life”

Davis writes, the neighbor “had made his way to the local morgue; he had been allowed to view his Internet friend; and so it was here, face to face with a dead man, that he first laid eyes on the one who, he had been convinced, was to have been his companion for life.” The man’s positivity about discovering a lifetime companion transmutes into a lifetime horror because the internet love expiries before they can even get the prospect to perceive each other. Here, the irony involves a critique that displays the palpable non-productive nature of internet dating.

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