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Reminds me of the delightfully strange short story by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar: ‘Axolotl’ is narrated by a lonely man who regularly visits the loc
by light_triad 2y ago
Reminds me of the delightfully strange short story by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar:
‘Axolotl’ is narrated by a lonely man who regularly visits the local zoo, where he becomes fascinated by the axolotls in the aquarium. In time, he states that he, too, is an axolotl, and feels he has become one of them.
https://ambystoma.uky.edu/teachers_materials/axolitbook/AxolotlByJulioCortazar.html https://ambystoma.uky.edu/teachers_materials/axolitbook/Axol...
- rumori 2y ago+1 really enjoyed the whole collection of short stories from Cortazar when I read it at uni. https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Selected-Stories-Julio-Cort%C3%A1zar/dp/1784875856 https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Selected-Stories-Julio-Cort%...
- gsf_emergency_2 2y agoCuriosity about the works of man >> curiosity about the "works" of "God"/"Nature"??? Ironic that this masterpiece is about an extreme form of the latter XD
- patrickscoleman 2y agolove the story! i took a stab at translating it: https://pscoleman.me/blog/axolotl https://pscoleman.me/blog/axolotl