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Alan Bray
Sep 15, 20223 min
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...
Alan Bray
Sep 8, 20223 min
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...
Alan Bray
Sep 1, 20223 min
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....
Alan Bray
Aug 25, 20224 min
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...
Alan Bray
Aug 18, 20224 min
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...
Alan Bray
Aug 11, 20223 min
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...
Alan Bray
Aug 4, 20223 min
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...
Alan Bray
Jul 28, 20224 min
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...
Alan Bray
Jan 7, 20213 min
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...
Alan Bray
Dec 31, 20204 min
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...