The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat by Sergi Pàmies | World Literature Today
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Trans. Adrian Nathan West. Other Press. 2021. 128 pages.
New York. Other Press. 2021. 128 pages. IN A RECENT INTERVIEW in La Vanguardia, Catalan author Sergi Pàmies remarks that “we are fiction and reality at the same time.” Accordingly, the narrators of the thirteen stories in The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat are more or less autobiographical: usually unnamed first-person (singular and plural), occasionally second- or even a cinematic third-person, but all discernible avatars for their author. In one story, we are told his mother was fond of saying that “the advantage of being a writer was that everything that happened to you could be turned…
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