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André Alexis Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Structure of the Story

The story is itself a setting up of counterpoises to end on what to end on. So the structural heis putting blocks against each other and leaving the last block unput or unset. Do you think that this is a moment towards their death? Don't know. And then suddenly, instead of te the gray van, you have these busses, and everything changesm or does it? Not sure. We're not, we cant, we can't say anything it at the end,. but we the last sentence is kindo, is kind of interesting in the desolate barracks of the north.

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