The Lost Glove Is Happy
I’m contemplating the following as a syllabus:
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Metamorphosis
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Ficciones
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The Street of Crocodiles
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Pale Fire
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Imaginary Magnitude and/or A Perfect Vacuum
But I think something is missing. I don’t think that something is The Waves, though there are reasons to think so. Nor Calvino. (But were there an affordable edition of the Codex Seraphinianus!) It’s not Barthelme or Danielewski or Zadie Smith. Byatt, maybe. If those books form a series, what is the next term?