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André Alexis Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is Italo Calvino?

Michaeles: Calvino avoids his own story. He's not one that's looking out to see a wife or family, he's looking at the guys. And if your theory is that diego represents galvino, that would make sense. But i find it moving when he discovers rinocano and when he discovers the ulipo. You are watching him putting barriers in his own way and constantly overcoming im.

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