Our Spring Revel is tonight. In anticipation of the event, theDailyis featuring a series of posts celebrating Lydia Davis, who is being honored this year with The Paris Review’s Hadada Award. Here, the illustrator Roman Muradov has adapted into comics Davis’s story “In a House Besieged,” which was originally published in the collection Break It Down (1986).

Roman Muradov is an award-winning illustrator and the author of (In A Sense) Lost & Found, Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art, and The End of a Fence. He recently designed and illustrated the centennial editions of James Joyce’s Dublinersand A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manfor Penguin Classics.