Dec 29, 2009

End of the Game | End of the Game

At a glance:

Author: Julio Cortazar
First Published: 1956
Type of Plot: Psychological
Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
Setting: A country home somewhere in Argentina
Principal Characters: Letitia, Holanda, The narrator, Ariel
Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Teenagers, Sex or sexuality, Reality, Fantasy, Vacations, Games
Locales: Argentina

The Story

As the title of this story indicates, the characters are playing a game that comes to an end at the close of the narrative. Letitia, Holanda, and the narrator spend their summer vacation thinking of ways either to confuse or to elude the authority figures in their lives, the narrator's mother and her Aunt Ruth. When they manage to escape the watchful eyes of the adults, Letitia, Holanda, and the narrator retreat to their “kingdom,” an area near the railroad tracks where they can act out their game and thus enter into a fantasy world of “Statues and...

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End of the Game | End of the Game

At a glance:

The Story

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