End of the Game, a man spends so long looking at an axolotl at this city's botanical gardens, that he becomes one.
In a story set in this city, a heroin-addled musician hallucinates wandering through vast fields of invisible funerary urns. Another story set in this city ends with a view of a sunny sky with chirping birds gradually emerging outside the narrator's window as he dries his tears. The narrator discloses his habit of vomiting up rabbits in a story structured as a letter to a woman named Andrea, who has moved to this city. The slow demise of saxophonist Johnny Carter is the subject of "The (*) Pursuers," a fictionalization of this city's 1950s bebop scene. In a story from the volume End of the Game, a man spends so long looking at an axolotl at this city's botanical gardens, that he becomes one. The disappearance of La Maga sparks the dissolution of this city's Serpent Club, in a novel that can be read according to two different sequences of chapters. For 10 points, Julio Cortazar spent the majority of his career living in what European city, the initial setting of his novel Hopscotch?
In a story set in this city, a heroin-addled musician hallucinates wandering through vast fields of invisible funerary urns.
Paris