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One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. 'Anyonewho doesn't read Cortázar is doomed.'?PabloNeruda In its characters, themes, and preoccupations, Final Examprefigures Cortázar's later fictions, includingBlow-Up and his masterpiece, Hopscotch. Writtenin 1950 (just before the fall of Perón's government), it isCortázar's allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to anArgentina from which he was about to be permanently self-exiled.(Cortázar moved to Paris the following year.) The setting of Final Exam is a surreal Buenos Aires, darkand eerie, where a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone'sbewilderment. Juan and Clara, two students, meet up with theirfriends Andrés and Stella, as well as a journalist friend theycall 'the chronicler.' Juan and Clara are getting ready to taketheir final exams, but instead of preparing, they wander the citywith their friends, encounter strange happenings in the squares andponder life in cafés. All the while, they are trailed by themysterious Abel. With its daring typography, its shifts in rhythm as well as in thewildly veering directions of its characters' thoughts and speech,Final Exam breaks new ground in the territory ofstream-of-consciousness narrative techniques. It is considered oneof Cortázar's best works.… (lisätietoja)
"All things considered," said a bitter Juan, "there's nothing brilliant about belonging to a pampa culture just because of some damned demographic accident."
Final Exam is a wonderful convoluted knot of a novel. Often inscrutable, the author placed it in a drawer in 1950 and it was only published posthumously. It is Cortázar's first novel and bears the marks of such. A mysterious fog has descended upon Buenos Aires, steadily dimming all. It is the night before Juan and Carla's university examinations. Anxious about this parting challenge, the couple accompany another trio of bohemians on a nocturnal trek as the humidity spikes, superstitious escapades erupt at every turn and literally the ground beneath their feet gives way. There is much here which anticipates [b:Hopscotch|53413|Hopscotch|Julio Cortázar|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1367728486s/53413.jpg|1794732] including the centipede on the album sleeve gag. Booze and banter abound. There is a hilarious brawl in a restroom, a holy relic attracts pilgrims from all over the metropolis and as the air becomes heavy dust balls and cinders fill the air, fellow citizens collapse dead. Throughout all this a jilted lover stalks. Much like the man in the gray mackintosh in [b:Ulysses|338798|Ulysses|James Joyce|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1346161221s/338798.jpg|2368224], the figure reappears like "Siegfried's horn" in Wagner. There is a fascinating comparison between Schumann and Artaud. The corruption of the university and the mediocrity of popular culture threatens the will to write. This is Cortázar's sayonara to Argentina. ( )
One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. 'Anyonewho doesn't read Cortázar is doomed.'?PabloNeruda In its characters, themes, and preoccupations, Final Examprefigures Cortázar's later fictions, includingBlow-Up and his masterpiece, Hopscotch. Writtenin 1950 (just before the fall of Perón's government), it isCortázar's allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to anArgentina from which he was about to be permanently self-exiled.(Cortázar moved to Paris the following year.) The setting of Final Exam is a surreal Buenos Aires, darkand eerie, where a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone'sbewilderment. Juan and Clara, two students, meet up with theirfriends Andrés and Stella, as well as a journalist friend theycall 'the chronicler.' Juan and Clara are getting ready to taketheir final exams, but instead of preparing, they wander the citywith their friends, encounter strange happenings in the squares andponder life in cafés. All the while, they are trailed by themysterious Abel. With its daring typography, its shifts in rhythm as well as in thewildly veering directions of its characters' thoughts and speech,Final Exam breaks new ground in the territory ofstream-of-consciousness narrative techniques. It is considered oneof Cortázar's best works.
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Final Exam is a wonderful convoluted knot of a novel. Often inscrutable, the author placed it in a drawer in 1950 and it was only published posthumously. It is Cortázar's first novel and bears the marks of such. A mysterious fog has descended upon Buenos Aires, steadily dimming all. It is the night before Juan and Carla's university examinations. Anxious about this parting challenge, the couple accompany another trio of bohemians on a nocturnal trek as the humidity spikes, superstitious escapades erupt at every turn and literally the ground beneath their feet gives way. There is much here which anticipates [b:Hopscotch|53413|Hopscotch|Julio Cortázar|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1367728486s/53413.jpg|1794732] including the centipede on the album sleeve gag. Booze and banter abound. There is a hilarious brawl in a restroom, a holy relic attracts pilgrims from all over the metropolis and as the air becomes heavy dust balls and cinders fill the air, fellow citizens collapse dead. Throughout all this a jilted lover stalks. Much like the man in the gray mackintosh in [b:Ulysses|338798|Ulysses|James Joyce|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1346161221s/338798.jpg|2368224], the figure reappears like "Siegfried's horn" in Wagner. There is a fascinating comparison between Schumann and Artaud. The corruption of the university and the mediocrity of popular culture threatens the will to write. This is Cortázar's sayonara to Argentina. (