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The New Yorker: Fiction cover image

Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

What Do You Think the Mother Means?

Bobby and the aunt seemed to share an anxiety and a drivenness around the mother, who we kind of her from the least and know the least in the story. The pleasurable part of the story as a work of art is also this way that the kind of magical thinking that everyone participates in is very related to the kind of experience of fiction making.

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