Julio Cortázar‘s The Continuity of Parks is unusual in that it is a “story within a story” in which the two stories come together. The title stems from the fact that part of the setting of both stories is a park, which we later learn to be the same park at the same time. A tired businessman relaxes with a book. He becomes absorbed in the story (a murder mystery), unaware that the book’s “hero” and “heroine” are nearby planning the same murder he is reading about… and that he is the intended victim!
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