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Zambra’s Camilo

Just read Alejandro Zambra’s “Camilo” in The New Yorker. Wonderful story.  In some ways it doesn’t seem to have much of a narrative structure; it’s episodic, and reads like a compressed memoir.  You’d think that would rob the story of its urgency, but the voice is so strong, and the writing so compact and honest, that it feels perfect.  The story doesn’t...

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