62: A Model Kit (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Julio Cortázar
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: The novel as play
- Time of Work: Uncertain; possibly the 1950’s or the 1960’s
- Setting: Paris, London, Vienna, Arcueil, and an imaginary city
- Principal Characters: Juan, Hélène, Marrast, Nicole, Tell, Calac, Polanco, Celia, Austin, Feuille Morte, The Paredros
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Memory, Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, Murder or homicide, Friendship, Paris, Austria or Austrians
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England, Arcueil, France, Vienna, Austria
The Novel
The novel begins on the twenty-fourth of December in Paris. As Juan spends Christmas Eve alone in a gloomy restaurant, he examines the relationship between thought, word, and action and he questions the value of reasoning itself. The deceiving nature of memory is then explored in passages which change swiftly and without warning from a first- to a second- and third-person narrator. Glimpses of specific details of what is going to happen, or has already happened, are introduced mostly through Juan’s thoughts. In the midst of a labyrinthine beginning, which will set...
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