Aug 21, 2008
“An Alpine Idyll” belongs at the end of the Nick Adams cycle of stories. A now mature Nick has come down from a month's skiing in the mountains with a friend, John. They witness a peasant burying his wife and the reader experiences an epiphanic moment of recognition shared with Nick, though not with his friend.
The story opens in the early morning with two young men carrying their skis as they are climbing down from the mountains into the valley. They pass a churchyard just as a burial is ending. The narrator, who remains unnamed throughout the story but...
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