![]() The "hero" of the novel walks out of the woods and onto an estate. ![]() The novel's plot and characters wash over him, and the story switches perspective to that of the novel's characters. He's engaged with reading a novel, first on the train, and then in his study, back at the estate. This story follows the movements of an estate owner as he returns to his estate from several pressing business meetings. First the brother and sister are relegated to using just one wing eventually, they are cast out of the home entirely. Suspense and tension emerges with the intrusion of a mysterious and unexplained (perhaps supernatural) presence that slowly begins to take ownership of the home. For the most part, this is a rather static tale of a brother and sister living out their lives in solitude in their ancestral home. ![]() This shift in perspective feeds the theme that art can become a way for creatures to connect and end their isolation from each other.Īs might be expected, Cortazar’s take on a haunted house story is unique. The difficulty is that Cortazar offers no signposts to determine when the perspective has changed. The story develops a dual narrative, presenting life seen from either the human or the animal point of view. A man who makes a habit of visiting the aquarium each day to see the axolotls one day becomes one.
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