![]() The first consists of quotations from myriad authors concerned with President Abraham Lincoln and the event at the center of the text, the death of his son Willie of typhoid fever at eleven. The book-let’s call it a text-consists of three elements. ![]() The dead remain there a while getting ready to move on to a definitive state. It may run to 343 pages like a novel but on most of them the print is floating in white space and what the print says isn’t novel-speak.īardo refers in a loose way to what is a kind of purgatory in Buddhist lore. We would do better not to put it in a genre pigeonhole. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ has been talked up as the first novel of the remarkable short-fiction writer George Saunders. ![]() ![]() The Other Lecce (the Monumental Cemetery. ![]()
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