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Alan Bray

Friends Till After The End

As described last time, Mavis Gallant’s Forain begins with the funeral of Adam Tremski, an eastern European author whose writing Blaise...

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Forain - Mavis Gallant

This week, let’s continue our exploration of the stories of Mavis Gallant, focusing on Forain, her June 1991 piece published in the New...

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We Have The Balenciaga

Let’s continue our exploration of the work of Mavis Gallant, in particular her 1963 story, The Ice Wagon Coming Down The Street. Okay....

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The Ice Wagon Coming Down The Street - Fun With Metaphor

“Now that they were out of world affairs and back where they started, Peter Frazier’s wife says, “Everybody else did well in the...

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The Resurgence Of The Implied Author

This week, let’s examine the style of Mavis Gallant’s short story, “Voices Lost In Snow.” Style is the way an author writes a story; it...

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When Is Now? - Voices Lost In Snow

We’ve noted the intriguing structure in Mavis Gallant’s Voices Lost In Snow, how the story contains an apparently autobiographical...

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Dad Rehabilitated - Voices Lost In Snow

Last week, I began a look at Mavis Gallant’s Voices Lost in Snow, remarking on how the theme of the story is that parents may be...

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Voices Lost In Snow

This week, a new story, a short story, Mavis Gallant’s Voices Lost In Snow, first published in the New Yorker in March of 1976. It is...

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This Is the End, My Only Friend

The ending of The Moslem Wife tells us what the story is about—the point—if you will. We talked last week about how the style of the...

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Stylin’

What is the style of The Moslem Wife? By way of review, fictional style can be thought of as the implied author, an entity who mediates...