But the taleteller had a more sinuous mind than the polemicist, and the sad effect of Gilmour's thesis is to make Kipling a less interesting figure than most careful readers now find him to be. |
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Gary Shteyngart is a melancholy Russian, a wandering Jew, an unassimilated American, a Swiftian satirist and a Gogolian taleteller. |
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