Description: Cortazar's mesmerizing and surreal 1972 novel takes place in "the city"--a nameless European metropolis whose identity is in the eye of the beholder. To one inhabitant, it's Paris, to another it's Barcelona. The beholders, in this case, ...
Synopsis Cortazar's mesmerizing and surreal 1972 novel takes place in "the city"--a nameless European metropolis whose identity is in the eye of the beholder. To one inhabitant, it's Paris, to another it's Barcelona. The beholders, in this case, are an eccentric and oddly-assorted group of bohemians and eccentrics.