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André Alexis Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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'Crow Comes' by Calvino - A Story That Reveals So Much About Him

This story was in his first story collection, the crow comes. It wasn't translated into english until two thousand six by martin mc laughlan. But i think maybe, in some ways, this story might have been slightly embarrassing to him for a couple of reasons. He seems to have a little bit of aum a love and hate relationship to so called neo realism.

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