reading can be dangerous to your health…

“He had begun to read the novel a few days before. He had put it aside because of some urgent business, opened it again on his way back to the estate by train; he allowed himself a slowly growing interest in the plot, in the drawing of characters.” The opening to “Continuity of Parks” is a slow and casual beginning to an amazing flash. Julio Cortázar has few peers. An A-list writer.

~ by samofthetenthousandthings on April 19, 2011.