
Alejandro Zambra Reads Bruno Schulz
The New Yorker: Fiction
You're Not Really Alone
When you read, you're not really alone. Youare with all those characters. Yes? Ye bute. This is something people learn when they read, that they are not alone and that they are enjoying this weird situation of reading people. Except for this poor pensioner. He's only got his reflection, and his reflection won't look at him. But maybe he finds a way out. And his way out is through writing. It is through inventing a door. I mean, no, for me, i think it ends on a positive note. That's e weld about the story, this unexpected light of hope heard, hope, agonizing hope, but hope in the end
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