The archive of supposed photocopies (I.E. memory) actually offers up strange creatures; the green paradise of childhood loves that Baudelaire recalled is for many a future in reverse, an obverse of hope in the face of the gray purgatory of adult loves.
Julio CortazarAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: argentinian
- Born: August 26, 1914
- Died: February 12, 1984
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