Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead, Milan Kundera
Novelette. Older woman, widowed, bumps into same younger man from their pasts. They’ve aged. Through alternating perspectives, the reader sees each’s preconceived ideas of one another, often not what the other thinks of them at all. See how I use these techniques in my story:
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Gypsy Boy by Mickey Walsh
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Baumgartner by Paul Auster
Exploration into the psyche of an older writer whose wife has died and how he copes at home without her. Craft insights: present tense, memory, making everyday moments poignant, run on sentences, humour. Read how I used similar techniques in my story:
The Possession by Anna Ernaux
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