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Julio Cortázar · 1963 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

Horacio Oliveira drifts around Paris with an Uruguayan woman called La Maga and expatriates who argue all night whether anything can be reached by thinking; later he is in Buenos Aires beside a friend whose wife resembles her. A Table of Instructions offers two readings: chapters one to fifty-six straight, or a hopscotch order from seventy-three folding in ninety-nine expendable chapters.

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