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Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Do You Get the Sensation That She's Reassuring for Bobby?

"I can't tell when he's trying to make the aunt feel loved and when he's receiving love from the aunt," she says. "The end of the story, which gets more confusing for me as i read it, as opposed to less ... She really seems to be setting up a scene where bobby is going to go get the knife ripe, and then he doesn't."

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