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Spittoon Issue 7 Sneak Peek: The Younger Cousin
Apr 1, 2021 8:30 am | Add a comment | 41 reads
This short story comes from our content partners at the Spittoon Collective as a preview of their Spittoon Literary Magazine Issue 7.  
Pick up a copy at the launch party
, this Saturday, Apr 3 at Aotu Space.
Translated by Ana Padilla Fornieles.
About the author:
 阿乙 
A Yi achieved his prominence in contemporary Chinese literature with a determined combination of inimitable talent and penchant for the bizarre. In the vein of Kafka or Gogol, this fragment of his short story, “The Younger Cousin,” disturbs and distorts a pedestrian reality to apply a mythical logic to our animal desires and routines. Rife with potent descriptors, this text is A Yi at the heights of his own brand of disconcerting tension. ....

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