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Feb 2022
36m 55s

Alejandro Zambra Reads Bruno Schulz

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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Alejandro Zambra joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Loneliness,” by Bruno Schulz, translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Zambra is a Chilean poet, novelist, and story writer whose most recent novel, “Chilean Poet,” will be published in English this month.
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