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300 short stories: story 298
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Tancredi” author: Barbara Alberti (translated by Lawrence Venuti)/didn’t have access to the Italian year: 1976 where: Al Reem note: Much like the form of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech, when asked to explain this story, Alberti, instead of answering straightforwardly, tells another story. a line: “She nursed the baby with one mouth at each breast, and she…
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300 short stories:: story 117
Samantha Neugebauer
story: The Country Boy author: Yusuf al-Sibai year: ? (early 20th century) where: home, kitchen table (again!) note: translated by the great Denys Johnson-Davis, who was the first, really, to recognize the explosion of Arabic short story writing following WWII a line: “Though he looked silent and quiet, it was a case of still waters running deep. With closed eyes and lowered head, all shyness and diffidence, he would sit beside his father, oozing innocence, when all the…
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