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From ODILE, ARBA ORO UOSTŲ VIENATVĖ (‘Odile, or the Loneliness of Airports’) by Valdas Papievis, introduced and translated by Karla Gruodis

In this passage we meet the elegant, elderly Parisian petite dame Odile, as well as the novel’s narrator, a melancholy, culturally displaced young man who lives in her attic and

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From ODILE, ARBA ORO UOSTŲ VIENATVĖ (‘Odile, or the Loneliness of Airports’) by Valdas Papievis, introduced and translated by Karla Gruodis

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