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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Understanding Pavel Romanovich

"L'enoshka was walking along a street which despite the rains having stopped hours ago was still wet and conveyed an air of deep humiliation" "I found it impossible to understand what he was talking about but I had time to see a waiter rush up to the aggressor from behind and with monstrous relish and force hit him on the head with an iron ashtray after this there was as usual in such cases the slow tidying up of the shattered world" L'enoshkas father's illness Pavel Romanovich went on contributed to his decision if you really live there as you say then you remember of course that street it's dark there by night and not infrequently what

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