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Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Only Thing That Stands Out for Me Is the Missing Fathers

Theant is standing in for the father, in a sense. She takes care of the boy because the mother is ill or too weak. But what she should be doing and her relationship to this child are very ambiguous. There's a sense of, like a really isolated family unit,. You don't have the sense that anybody ever goes into that house.

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