El examen

Sinopsis

Long undiscovered, Final Exam, Julio Cortzar's first novel (published 1986 in Spanish) is a major work by this important Argentinian author, now available in English translation for the first time. In its characters, themes, and preoccupations it prefigures Cortzar's later fictions, including Blow-Up and his masterpiece Hopscotch. Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Pern's government), Final Exam is Cortzar's allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which he was about to be permanently self-exiled. (Cortzar moved to Paris the following year.