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Unbelievably, this was my first time reading this short story. It’s a favorite now.
I immediately was reminded of another favorite author of mine, Kafka, so the story had a leg up soon after I began.
Next, add in a narrator who particularly enamors me with absurdist language and situations, and also deigns to smoothly slide in an explanation for me here and there without interrupting the flow of events; I’m in for the haul.
…circumstances were such that it would have been impossible for him to ha ...more
I immediately was reminded of another favorite author of mine, Kafka, so the story had a leg up soon after I began.
Next, add in a narrator who particularly enamors me with absurdist language and situations, and also deigns to smoothly slide in an explanation for me here and there without interrupting the flow of events; I’m in for the haul.
…circumstances were such that it would have been impossible for him to ha ...more
Aug 13, 2019
Rajat Gururaj
marked it as to-read
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Dana
marked it as to-read
