Final Exam

Cortázar, Julio

| 2000

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Long undiscovered, Final Exam, Julio Cortázar'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 Cortázar's later fictions, including Blow-Up and his masterpiece Hopscotch. Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Perón's government), Final Exam is Cortázar's allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which he was about to be permanently self-exiled. (Cortázar 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 college called "The House" (the Great Books are read aloud there by so-called Readers), meet up with their friends Andrés...

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