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In 1946, when this story was written, Julio Cortázar lived in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. World War II had only recently ended, and Argentina was in a
state of political turmoil. Young people, including Cortázar, were critical
of a conservative element in the government that had refused to join
the Allied cause against Adolf Hitler until late in the war, by which time
communication with Europe had all but stopped. The young author left
Buenos Aires five years after writing this story, in protest against the policies
of Juan Peron, who was increasingly dominating Argentinian politics.
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