Cortazar - Argentine Author

Cortázar is an Argentine author, short story writer, and interpreter, whose intricately

exploratory fantasies have been contrasted with work by Borges, Kafka, and Joyce.

Many of Julio Cortazar’ short stories depict people who are distressed by delusions, mind

flights, and nightmares. These clear and vivid fantasies are regularly expressive of the

characters' profound estrangement, guilt, or fear. In Cortázar's short fiction, the interaction

between fantasy and reality is of two unique examples. Now and again the hallucinations of

the characters go about as a constructive power, putting forth relief and even unexpected

satisfaction for persons who in all actuality lead desolate and disappointed lives. A

percentage of the characters support their private fantasy through which they decrease their

anguish and guilt. In different stories fantasy is afflictive and damaging, serving to increase

the initial anxiety of the character lastly separating him totally from reality, undermining his

rational soundness

From reading Cortázar’ short story “Continuity of Parks” it sets out a puzzle which the

reader must solve , as reality and fantasy cross . In fact, however, no solution is possible, and

Cortázar shows no interested in puzzles in the first place. On a fundamental level, the short

story appears to shout out for a clean analysis and explanation. On the off chance that we