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Author: Julio Cortázar
First Published: 1968
Type of Plot: The novel as play
Time of Work: Uncertain; possibly the 1950’s or the 1960’s
Setting: Paris, London, Vienna, Arcueil, and an imaginary city
Principal Characters: Juan, Hélène, Marrast, Nicole, Tell, Calac, Polanco, Celia, Austin, Feuille Morte, The Paredros
Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, Murder or homicide, Friendship, Paris, Austria or Austrians
Locales: Paris, France, London, England, Arcueil, France, Vienna, Austria

The novel begins on the twenty-fourth of December in Paris. As Juan spends Christmas Eve alone in a gloomy restaurant, he examines the relationship between thought, word, and action and he questions the value of reasoning itself. The deceiving nature of memory is then explored in passages which change swiftly and without warning from a first- to a second- and third-person narrator. Glimpses of specific details of what is going to happen, or has already happened, are introduced mostly through Juan’s thoughts. In the midst of a labyrinthine beginning, which will set...

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