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André Alexis Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Confluence of Time and Space in Folklore

There's this really odd confluence of time and space in the story. Time is referred to as a web or a puzzle that can be rejumed into different patterns. And so it may be that the kind of general time of folklore is guiding him here, that there is an expanded now for the story.

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