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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Lenoschka's Conflicted Feelings

It's very interesting because she does say that she used to be infatuated with him and then there's just a constant tension between what she's saying and what she's doing which is inviting him into her room cuddling up next him on the couch stroking his head in her lap flirting with him. In a way he doesn't actually seem to notice but she has very conflicted feelings I suppose. We as readers have a hard time understanding if because she describes him in such like with all these negatives and then she just like can't help herself with imprinted sees like but the teeth and like she wants it but she doesn't want it.

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