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Salman Rushdie Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Ending's Symbolism and Physicality

Treisman and Rushdie discuss the story's climactic sea imagery as a symbolic, possibly sexual, culmination and its ambivalent resolution.

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