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Mr. Gwyn-Alessandro Baricco

At Home in Translation: Alessandro Baricco’s Mr. Gwyn, translated by Ann Goldstein

Reviewed by Stiliana Milkova Can a literary text faithfully represent a person’s identity? Can a writer capture someone’s likeness and portray it accurately on paper? These questions lie at the heart of Alessandro Baricco’s novel Mr. Gwyn, a text which probes the boundaries of the novel as a literary genre while weaving a narrative about […]