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Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Immigrant Life in Berlin

It's the only first person narrative he wrote from the point of view of a woman so it's interesting to me to think why this woman and why did he never do it again after doing this one yeah I mean if we think about her I'm fascinated by the way that she uses French throughout the narrative. My idea is that she's had this life put on pause on a way we know that she's lost the number of things but then she seems to be a person who reads there is this funny line when Pavel Romano which looks as her bookshelf where she says kind of something a little bit condescending about people who don't read.

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