Final Exam

Name: Final Exam
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9781529956757

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256 pages2025Penguin Random HouseISBN 9781529956757

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"Final Exam, one of Julio Cortazar's early novels, is his allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which he was about to be permanently self-exiled. (Cortazar moved to Paris the following year.)". "The setting of Final Exam is a surreal Buenos Aires, dark and eerie, where a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone's bewilderment. Juan and Clara, two students at a Faculty called "The House" (the Great Books are read aloud there by so-called Readers), meet up with their friends Andres and Stella, as well as a journalist friend they call "the chronicler." Juan and Clara are getting ready to take their final exam, but instead of preparing, they wander the city with their friends, encounter strange happenings in the squares and ponder life in cafes. All the while, they are trailed by the mysterious Abel, apparently a former lover of Clara's."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2025
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781529956757

About Unknown Author

Julio Florencio Cortázar (Ixelles, 26 de agosto de 1914-París, 12 de febrero de 1984) fue un escritor, poeta y profesor argentino. También trabajó como traductor, oficio que desempeñó para la Unesco y varias editoriales. En 1981, sin renunciar a su nacionalidad argentina, optó por la francesa en protesta contra la dictadura militar en su país, que prohibió sus libros y que él denunció a la prensa internacional desde su residencia en París. Se lo considera uno de los autores más innovadores y originales de su tiempo, maestro del relato corto, la prosa poética y la narración breve en general, y creador de importantes novelas, en la cual destaca *Rayuela,* que inauguraron una nueva forma de hacer literatura en el mundo hispano. Junto a Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa y Carlos Fuentes, fue uno de los exponentes centrales del *boom* latinoamericano. Fuente: [Wikipedia](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar) ---------- Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar