Final del juego

Final del juego / End of the Game and Other Stories

Short stories and novellas , 1956

Alfaguara

Pages: 167

The eighteen stories in Final del juego comprise other experiments with perfection: in just a few pages, they themselves set the conditions, and they themselves meet them. Internal adjustments make Cortázar’s stories seem simple while they’re being read. But afterwards, we immediately feel a web of new sensations, of ideas we’d never thought of before, of different instructions for observing reality. The game is over, and literature leaves us facing life, which has just changed.