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    A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"
    A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"
    A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"
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    A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"

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    A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535838641
    A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"

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      A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up" - Gale

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      The Night Face Up

      Julio Cortázar

      1956

      Introduction

      The Night Face Up is a story by the twentieth-century Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. It was first published in his short-story collection The End of the Game in 1956. It is also available in Blow-Up, and Other Stories, another collection of Cortázar's, translated by Paul Blackburn.

      The story is about a man who is involved in a minor accident while riding his motorcycle in a city. He is taken to the hospital and receives surgery. While under the influence of the surgery drugs and a fever, he has a nightmare in which he dreams he is a Motecan Indian being pursued by Aztec warriors many centuries ago. The warriors capture him and prepare him for sacrifice. The man wakes from the dream and then slips back into it again, and at the end of the story there is a twist that plays on the relationship between dream and reality: is the motorcyclist in the hospital dreaming of the Motecan, or is the Motecan having a strange dream about a city of the future?

      The origins of the story are autobiographical. In 1952, Cortázar crashed his motorcycle in Paris when he tried to avoid a woman who was crossing the street. He was hospitalized, and the incident gave him the idea for The Night Face Up. The story is notable not only for being a good example of the work of one of the masters of the short story but also because of the clever and ambiguous way the author plays with the relationship between dream and reality and creates a surprise ending.

      Author Biography

      Cortázar was born in Brussels, Belgium, on August 26, 1914. His parents, Julio Jose Cortázar and Maria Herminia Descotte, were from Argentina, and his father was a diplomat.

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