The Girl in the Photograph (42 page)

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House of the Fortunate Buddhas
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Larva: A Midsummer Night’s Babel
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Poundemonium
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Procession of Shadows
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the Supreme
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Arriving in Avignon
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The Explosion of the Radiator Hose
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Hotel Crystal
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Alix’s Journal
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The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart
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The Great Fire of London
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Hortense in Exile
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Hortense Is Abducted
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The Loop
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Some Thing Black
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French Fiction Revisited
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Impressions of Africa
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V
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Night
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Siamese
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The Company of Ghosts
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Everyday Life
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The Lecture
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Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal
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Do You Hear Them?

        
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The Planetarium
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Nobodaddy’s Children
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Motti
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Nightwork
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My Paris
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This What Other Women Feel Too?

        
What Waiting Really Means
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Inish
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Transit
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HEEHAN
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Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant
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IKTOR
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Bowstring
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Knight’s Move
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A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922
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Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot
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Literature and Cinematography
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Theory of Prose
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Third Factory
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Zoo, or Letters Not about Love
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C
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The Invitation
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INIAC
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The Collaborators
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The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am
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The Engineer of Human Souls
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Blue Pastoral
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Pack of Lies
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Something Said
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Splendide-Hôtel
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Steelwork
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The Complete Fiction
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The Making of Americans
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A Novel of Thank You
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Running Away
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The Idea of Home
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Memories of My Father Watching TV
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Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics
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Requiem
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Excitability: Selected Stories
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Romancer Erector
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Wall to Wall
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Ya! & John-Juan
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The Presentable Art of Reading Absence
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Generation of Vipers
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Angel in the Forest
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Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
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LYGIA FAGUNDES TELLES
was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1923, and is one of the most respected authors in
Brazilian literature. In 2005 she won the Camões Prize, the greatest literary award
in the Portuguese speaking world, and she is one of only three female members of the
Brazilian Academy of Letters.

MARGARET A. NEVES
has translated work by Jorge Amado, Antonio Torres, Moacyr Scliar, and Edgard T.
Ribeiro.

Originally published in Portugese as
As Meninas
by José Olympio Rio de Janeiro, 1973; and in English by Avon Bard, New York, 1982

Copyright © 1973 by Lygia Fagundes Telles

Translation and copyright © 1982 by Margaret A. Neves

Introduction © 2012 by Earl E. Fitz

First Dalkey Archive edition, 2012

All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Telles, Lygia Fagundes.

[Meninas. English]

The girl in the photograph / Lygia Fagundes Telles ; translated by Margaret A. Neves;
introduction by Earl E. Fitz. –– 1st Dalkey Archive ed.

    p. cm.

“Originally published in Portugese as As Meninas by José Olympio Rio de Janeiro, 1973;
and in English by Avon Bard, New York, 1982.”

eISBN 9781564788207

1. Women –– Fiction. I. Neves, Margaret A. II. Title.

PQ9697.T49M413 2012

869.3’42–dc23

                                                    2012020819

Partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency

Obra publicada com o apoio do Ministério da Cultura do Brasil/ Fundação Biblioteca
Nacional / Coordenadoria Geral do Livro e da Leitura.

Work published with the support of Brazil’s Ministry of Culture / National Library
Foundation / Coordinator General of the Book and Reading.