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Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

by Julio Cortazar · 1967

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Around the Day in Eighty Worlds includes book reviews, travel pieces, short stories, poetry, and appreciations of jazz artists like Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk, and Louis Armstrong. There is also quite a lot about Cortazar's cat, whose name was Theodor W. Adorno.

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A lot of his thoughts and likings taped together.

Setting
1960s1960sMore like thisLess of thisLatin AmericaLatin AmericaMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 320 pages
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short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of thisessaysessaysMore like thisLess of thispoetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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