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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Triumph of Pavel Romano

"I was telling him about Nick's new job in the ecclesiastical library but his gaze kept shifting he was obviously not listening we arrived the disorder in the three smallish rooms that he had occupied with his Lenosh cow was simply incredible as if his and her things had had a thorough fight. After two or three ponies of vodka his mood became inordinately energetic and pseudo-efficient as if they really existed a certain project that had to be attended to now" "He brought out what he called the dossier letters from his wife received last spring in Brahmin where he spent time".

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