![]() ![]() First published in English in End of the Game, Pantheon, 1967 and collected in Blow Up and Other Stories, Pantheon, 1985 Posted on MaMaby Jonathan Gibbs Posted in Ben Tufnell Tagged Julio Cortázar. The effect is deeply unsettling.įirst published in Spanish in Litereria, 1952 and collected in Final del Juego. We have only questions and possibilities. This might be an account of over-identification or madness, or it might be a story about something much stranger, a kind of transference or metamorphosis. It won’t harm the reading of the story to say that we end with the narrator in the aquarium, an axolotl, paradoxically watching himself peering through the glass at the axolotls. With subtle shifts of perspective – from first to third person – Cortazar delineates a scenario in which reality is gently turned inside out. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. It has possibly the greatest opening paragraph ever: This is one of the strangest stories I have ever read, and I am haunted by it.
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