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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

CHAPTER

The Seducer's Diary

Kiergegard said that you have to either read the whole book or just not read it at all. The seducer's diary started with a description of johannes the seducer, and how he was able, using his mental gifts, to make a girl fall in love with him. He wrote, this was just how i had felt when ivan told me about the hungary programme. If she can predict anything then i have gone wrong, and the whole relationship loses its meaning.

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