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The eight stories included in "The Octagon" are a mixture of the social and the political, combined with the themes to which Julio Cortázar constantly returns: love, sleep, passion, death, the relationship between a man and a woman, the border between every day and the unreal.

These stories act as sides of a complete figure, together forming its meaning: thus, the hero who tells about his death in the story "Liliana cries" has his opposite side in the story "Fazi Severo". Each of the plots finds alternative continuations and strange forms of echo in this book.

The world of "Octogon" stories is compact and, at the same time, limitless; accurate but also unpredictable. If a collection of short stories can be characterized as a hidden novel, then it is, without a doubt, about "The Octagon".