Wednesday, May 16, 2018

On the Death of the Author

This evening in a quiet university library, I pulled from the shelf Dalkey Archive's Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction and read in its entirety "On the Death of the Author" by Alvaro Enrigue. A satisfying literary experience this was.
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