Final Exam

In a fog-drenched Buenos Aires, Juan and Clara should be preparing for their final exam. Instead, they roam the city with friends, drifting through cafes, encountering strange happenings, and unravelling life''s mysteries. All the while, they are shadowed by the mysterious Abel. Darkly funny and steeped in ambiguity, Final Exam is Julio Cortazar''s haunting allegory of a world on the brink-his melancholic, defiant farewell to an Argentina he would soon leave behind forever.

About the author

Julio Cortazar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of his life, and after that in Paris. His stories, written under the dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of nightmare. In later life Cortazar became a passionate advocate for human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships in Latin America. He died in 1984.

Product details

• Authors: Julio Cortazar, Julio Cortázar
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.08.2025
• EAN: 9781529956757
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-5675-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Buenos Aires, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Latin-American Spanish, FICTION / World Literature / Argentina, Classic fiction: general and literary