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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Last Days of a Woman

i have a few possible tapes yeah but first let's think about who's telling it if it's the story of the last days of a woman and yet it's told by someone else. i actually made the mistake i misread ill said i read it as i'll said and i said ah the narrator appears there we go It definitely has personalityYeah there seems like there's a point of view and an opinion and commentary in this person yes speakingYes relentless pain until the very end Yeah at the very end the final moment you got to wait for it so i have a couple of theories um the first one that occurred to me while reading is and i actually i'm not sure if it's i

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