Octagon - Julio Cortázar

The eight stories included in "The Octagon" are a mixture of the social and the political, combined with themes that Julio Cortázar constantly returns to: love, sleep, passion, death, the relationship between a man and a woman, the border between the everyday and the unreal.

These stories act as sides of a complete figure, together forming its meaning: thus, the hero who tells about his own death in the story "Liliana cries" has his opposite side in the story "Fazi Severo". Each of the plots finds in this book alternative continuations, strange forms of echo.

The world of "Octogon" stories is compact and at the same time limitless; accurate but also unpredictable. If a collection of short stories can be characterized as a hidden novel, then it is, without a doubt, about "The Octagon".