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How I Became A Nun

Name: How I Became A Nun
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Aira César

Жанр Современная проза

Год 2014

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"My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the point where I took the veil."How I Became a Nun

A few days after his fiftieth birthday, Aira noticed the thin rim of the moon, visible despite the rising sun. When his wife explained the phenomenon to him he was shocked that for fifty years he had known nothing about "something so obvious, so visible." This epiphany led him to write . With a subtle and melancholic sense of humor he reflects on his failures, on the meaning of life and the importance of literature.

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