6. While Canada is rightly honored to be able to claim Gallant as one of our own, she was really a European writers.
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7. False to say Europeans discovered America but arguably true that North Americans discovered Europe: Henry James, G. Stein, Gallant.
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8. Europeans see each other through haze of nationalism; it took North Americans to see Europe as a coherent cultural entity.
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9. Gallant became a European in way that only someone born outside continent could: she habituated herself to several national traditions.
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10. Remarkable thing about Gallant is that when writing about France or Germany or Switzerland she never seems a tourist or outsider.
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11. In fact, Gallant is something of an anti-travel writer. When reading about her small-minded Germans or Frenchmen, you want to stay home
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12. Mavis Gallant is rarely thought of as a science fiction writer.
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13. Yet Gallant's Pegnitz Junction (1973) is a science fiction novella about a mental telepathy.
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14. Gallant's handling of telepathy as symptom of alienation rather than communication calls to mind Robert Silverberg's Dying Inside (1972)
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15. Gallant's novella came out a year after Silverberg's novel. Would love to know if she had read Silverberg.
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16. Telepathy as failed communication mirrors Gallant's larger portrait of Europe as continent of degraded memory & explosive secrets.
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