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The eight stories that make up The Octagon are a mixture of the social and the political, combined with themes that Julio Cortázar has consistently returned to: love, sleep, passion, death, the relationship between men and women, and the boundary between the everyday and the unreal.

These stories are the sides of a single figure, jointly constituting its content: the protagonist who narrates his own death in "Liliana Cries" has his opposite side in "Phases Severo". Each of the stories finds in this book alternative continuations, strange forms of echo.

The world of the stories in The Octagon is brief and yet boundless; precise but also unpredictable. If a collection of short stories can be described as a hidden novel, it is undoubtedly about The Octagon.