October: Long Sunday

October: Long Sunday Book Description A man. No more... October: Long Sunday, which has been considered one of the hidden masterpieces of magical realism and modern European literature since the day it was published, is the story of a man who loses his identity step by step. While he watches his life slipping away like an indifferent, calm water, the only thing he wants is not to drown in the vortex of time and fate. He stops moving and waits to reach a kind of stupor, perhaps that literary rest that the ancient Greek philosophers called happiness, and in the middle of these daydreams, he turns into whoever the people around him want him to be and keeps questioning "whether he is being lived by others rather than living." Cortázar said, "I felt like I was suffocating while reading, and as I struggled to breathe, I was crushed under the feeling of nostalgia experienced by someone who is almost dead, whose past flashes before his eyes, whose future crumbles into ashes and silence. This feeling held me captive for hours, and I thought I had discovered a writer with the blood of a king." "I froze in terror," is an award-winning gem that refers to the feverish, inner journey of Ulysses that eliminates his existence without leaving the slightest trace behind. "October means fall, it is the harbinger of diving into the cold darkness that Baudelaire also feared. "It evokes an uneasy feeling, a shaking of existence, a morbid disintegration of the self." (From the Promotional Bulletin)