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Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What's the Story Telling Process?

I think i loorn at the spanish very quickly. I feel as thoughat the word was unimalos or something based on m a l as the root, which would be bad m in english. Who even knows what the child means in his choice of word? Well, ye. But i do think cortasa generally, is very good at making us feel how fiction making isn't just aesthetic play. It's also the way people have identities and function in the world. Bobby, for example, to get out of the dynamic that this story horrifyingly depicts, is going to have to figure out a way toell his own story or make his own fictions in order to separate

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