![]() ![]() The action surrounds a number of characters Juan an Argentinean is the main character, he is maybe a shadow version of Julio himself. Now this book is probably one of the most difficult I have read but also compelling. The barebones of story no names and no places at times but wonderfully written. To hold you against me, protect you from fright, but so many bodies separeted us, and when forced you off in a confused movement That the abomination was coming, that the Dog was going to happen and I tried Or I’ll be with you, my love, because with you I’ve gone down to my city on occasionĪnd in the streetcar thick with alien, shapeless pssengers I understood Or from the hotel I’ll go out to the zone of toilets redolent with urine and excrement, ![]() Then I’ll walk through my city and I’ll enter the hotel Julio Cortazar own life was rather like the book itself he spent time in France Paris is one of the man place mentioned in the book and also a number of the characters are from Argentina. Could be read in any order as each passage could link in any way to any other passages. He states that this book like his earlier book. The novel was a spin-off from his earlier book Hopscotch. This is it the second book for this blog by Julio Cortazar. I said when I reviewed The boat in the evening, I had another book from 1968 to review. ![]()
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