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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

The New Yorker: Fiction

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How Pavel Manages to Capture Grief

"I love when he took off his shoes that's one of those like you know like the kind of weird unexpected detail that makes a story saying why does he take off his shoes?" "He seems completely oblivious of her I mean she she's a tool for him a tool for getting his wife out of the house or you know finding some satisfaction in his situationYeah she's not there as herself yeah," says actress Anna Kendrick. "[Pavel] tries to make sense of this breakup almost like he's solving an equation this can't be happening because at some point she has loved me."

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