Axolotl | Ideas for Group Discussion
In "Axolotl," Cortazar combines fantastic and ordinary situations and characters as he creates his own method of understanding reality.
1. Literature by Latin American authors following the end of World War II became characterized by magic realism. The absurd or the fantastic marks postwar Latin American writing, and a rational view of reality is rejected. Discuss some ways in which this trend has manifested itself in American literature of the same period.
2. Of all the animals in the Jardin des Plantes, what characteristics caused Cortazar to select the axolotl, or...
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