Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner
The New Yorker: Fiction
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What Is the Unknown Ability?
Clive: I've been thinking a lot about the relationship between truth and fiction. He's really concerned with how his father in law is going to perceive him. Andswo he's kind of like, what is the story that people are telling about me? What is that boy looking at? Who am i? Then we get a story that's full on gothic, a melodrama.
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