A Manual for Manuel

The final novel by the great Cortázar. It is his fiercest and most temperamental work, in which he addresses events of the recent past, refracting them through the prism of his characteristic technique—the “book within a book.” The author’s literary fiction intertwines with the real events of two parallel worlds in Paris and Argentina, creating a single universal space where a continuous struggle for justice and happiness takes place. This struggle is not only for abstract ideals but also for the happiness of a little boy, for whom the novel's characters create a sorrowful chronicle of their generation—A Manual for Manuel.