![]() ![]() ![]() In both pieces, characters digress into small anecdotes, creating an intriguing layered narrative. Their lengthy conversations crowd out all other actions until the last few pages in which shocking, unmotivated violence erupts. She turns down their propositions, but the two young women eventually convince her to at least talk. In “The Proof,” Marcia is an overweight Argentinian teenager suddenly drawn into the orbit of two abrasive, sexually aggressive punks. The plot takes a very bizarre and abrupt swerve into magical realism, leading to a conclusion far from its premise. As he leads the two through the city, they slowly slide into melancholy and confusion. He conspires to turn a chance encounter with a French married couple, a photographer and a cartoonist, into an invitation to join them in Europe. In the first, a monk in Korea longs to visit the West. Aira ( Ema the Captive) challenges readers in two deeply strange novellas. ![]()
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