The Winners (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Julio Cortazar
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: Buenos Aires and aboard a cruise ship
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Revolutions, Ships, Argentina or Argentineans, Conformity, Totalitarianism, Lotteries
- Locales: Oceans, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Characters Discussed
Gabriel Medrano (meh-DRAH- noh), a dentist and a womanizer who is dissatisfied with life on board the Malcolm. He allies himself with a group that does not accept the official explanation of why the passengers have not been given complete access to the ship, that of an outbreak of typhus among the crew’s members. When Claudia Lewbaum’s son Jorge becomes ill, Medrano decides that the unsatisfactory response of the ship’s authorities requires forcible entry into the restricted areas of the ship. He storms the radio room and forces the operator to...
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