
Alejandro Zambra Reads Bruno Schulz
The New Yorker: Fiction
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What Do You Think Is Going on in the Story?
The short story is full of that. And i think that's a way of being, in a way, honest. You mean, the transformation from mouse to man, or mouse to pensioner? I cannot explain. The big contradiction between the opening linson and the indian, it is with great relief that i feel able to go out again. Bute, when you finish reading the story, you realize that she's not able to going out again. So it's something that i think we as readers don't understand, a he doesn't understand either. But it's about feelingann at her. Ye. Even this transformation, this false transformation, it is a way ofBeing
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