The Story Archive

Continuity of Parks

Julio Cortázar · 1964 CE · Short Story · Latin American · Contemporary

A businessman who put a novel aside for a week of contracts takes it up again, settling that evening into a green velvet armchair with his back to the door and the park visible through tall windows. Line by line the book absorbs him: a knife-scarred lover meeting a woman in a mountain cabin, the last conference, the plan gone over step by step. Two pages, and the standard demonstration of what a frame can do.

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