2The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortazar PDF

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2300a, Prose Fiction, Spring 2014, Scott...

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An example of both surrealism and metafiction. One could consider the climax to be the final line, with no resolution. The setting in the book is the same as the novel the man is reading. There are a couple hints to the twist ending. "Sprawled in his favorite armchair, with his back to the door, which would o have bothered him as an irritating possibility for intrusions…” “...comfortably against the green velvet of the armchair with its high bac the cigarettes were still within reach of his hand, that beyond the great win the afternoon air danced under the oak trees in the park.” "The door of the salon, and then the knife in his hand, the light from great windows, the high back of an armchair covered in green v the head of the man in the chair reading a novel" "That afternoon, after writing a letter to his agent and discussing with the m of his estate a matter of joint ownership” "The estate manager would not be there at this hour, and he was not The legality of this is interesting, as it means the estate manager get estate, bypassing the will. He is possibly looking forward to somethi happening. Did he know his wife/partner/lover was going to kill him? He was dealing with the something, be it the marriage or whatnot, just he probably was not expecting the his life. Or was he? Or was he just resigned to his fate? The surprise ending, arguably, then serves a purpose. Arguably, this could be about the power of storytelling; you get so deep int story, that you make the characters come alive. You become a part of the s fantasy becomes reality. We were not one step ahead of the characters in this story. By turning his chair, is he turning his back on reality? Usually, we only turn back to the door if we feel safe. The characters are not deep, and we don’t have a whole lot of information about We have to fill in gaps with our own ideas. We don’t have a lot of facts to base assumptions on their mental state or anything on. Maybe this is just a story about the experience about reading the story. When you immerse yourself in a story, you lose parts of yourself to the story. You lose time, yourself. You cannot live forever in a fantasy world. There needs to be a gap betwee imagination and reality. He keeps himself tied to the real world when he is s the velvet. The only thing that defines reality is the green armchair. Much like the man, we put ourselves in the story by trying to fill in the gaps, and t relate....