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Article: The hallucination. (short story)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Joyce Carol Oates contributed "The Hallucination" to the Spring 1975 issue of Chicago Review. Often noted for her prolific outpouring of short fiction and novels, she is a frequent contributor to little magazines; with her husband, Raymond Smith, she edits the Ontario Review and the Ontario Review Press. She currently teaches at Princeton. Of this story, OATES writes,
I can say about "The Hallucination" that it was directly inspired by an incident in my personal life, probably in 1974; in Windsor, Ontario, Canada where my husband and I were living in a house not identical with the house described in the story but in circumstances roughly analogous. A hallucinating ...