Southern Highway

Author: (Argentinian) Julio Cortázar, translated by Lin Zhimu and others
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Features: Highway South describes the traffic jam on the highway to Paris, where people in adjacent cars exchange rumors about the cause of the jam. The flow of language overwhelms meaning, and the inertia of movement becomes the only passion in the narrative here. In another short story in the book, Secret Weapon, the work mainly depicts a world trampled by reason. The strong tendency toward realism and the touch of fantasy allow Cortázar to retain the critical perspective and argumentative style of self-examination typical of South American writers.