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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Grief

Maria Vasilovna has been grieving a lot yeah without having anyone around I don't think her grief has had the opportunity to speak maybe it's been spoken inside that sad room of hers but no one has been listening not even her brother. She knows how painful it is to be grieving by herself so she won't let that happen and then of course like the hope that this time it might be different could be a thing as well. There there's something about like how the interaction between Maria and Pavel like I wonder if there's something also in Pavel's mind when he sees Maria that he kind of feels like is this where I will end up is this the end point kind of so maybe

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