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    Bring Back Cortázar

    by Alejandro Zambra Oct 17, 2018 2 minutes

    Argentine writer Julio Cortázar at home in Paris. Photo: Ulf Andersen / Getty Images.

    Sometimes I think the only thing we did in school was read Julio Cortázar. I remember taking tests on “The Night Face Up” in each of my last three years of school, and countless were the times we read “Axolotl” and “The Continuity of Parks,” two short stories that the teachers considered ideal for filling

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