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Final Exam (Paperback)
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Final Exam (Paperback)
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In its characters, themes, and preoccupations, Final Exam
prefigures Cortazar's later fictions, including Blow-Up and his
masterpiece, Hopscotch. Written in 1950 (just before the fall of
Peron's government), it is Cortazar's allegorical, bitter, and
melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which he was about to be
permanently self-exiled. (Cortazar moved to Paris the following
year.) The setting of Final Exam is a surreal Buenos Aires, dark
and eerie, where a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone's
bewilderment. Juan and Clara, two students, meet up with their
friends Andres and Stella, as well as a journalist friend they call
"the chronicler." Juan and Clara are getting ready to take their
final exams, but instead of preparing, they wander the city with
their friends, encounter strange happenings in the squares and
ponder life in cafes. All the while, they are trailed by the
mysterious Abel. With its daring typography, its shifts in rhythm
as well as in the wildly veering directions of its characters'
thoughts and speech, Final Exam breaks new ground in the territory
of stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques. It is considered
one of Cortazar's best works."
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