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André Alexis Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Calvino's the Paths of the Spiders Nests

There's a real story telling element to this. So i guess you cal sort of speak of calvino as having a number of threads that he brings together, the experimental side with the ulipean on the realistic side, and then also the mythological side. But one of the things, i mean, if we were going to be truly prophessorial about it, you could also point to the way words and images are repeated three times, sometimes four es,. Like there's a constant insistence, which, again, echoes story telling.

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