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Alejandro Zambra Reads Bruno Schulz

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Most Beautiful Thing About Writing

I like that way of conceiving writing as searching the whole time. The most beautiful thing about writing is that you don't really know where you're going. And i think every person who writes experiences that in some way. Sometimes you get to something you can show to people, and you publish it. But still there is a trick. I mean, it's interesting, at the end, he does say he's walled in. He can't get out. But he offers a way out, which is by imagining a door. Bu by writing this story. In a way, yes, the story is his door, i suppose.

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