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Short Fiction · Chapter
XXIII explained
The narrator is seized by the gendarmes.
What happens
The narrator is seized by the gendarmes.
Themes in this chapter
Freedom and Imprisonment
The narrator is seized by the gendarmes, marking a loss of freedom and the beginning of imprisonment.
Key passages
“What else can I tell you? I was seized by the gendarmes.”
There is little more to say; the gendarmes arrested me.
The narrator succinctly states his arrest, ending the chapter.