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André Alexis Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is There a Mythic Realm in This Book?

There's also a strange confluence of narrative elements here, because most of the narrative is quite realistic. As mihelley is both ghost and therefore something of the past and in the future. So that kind, it's one of those elements of time being collapsed there. I mean, perhaps that also has to do wit bing in this moment right before death,. You know, this moment of waiting for death that stretches out eternally, yes? Yes.

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