A juxtaposition of reality and dream sequences begin when the protagonist is hospitalized after a motorcycle accident. His amulet is gone. He knows he will be sacrificed and the priests carry him away. He awakens one last time, and he realizes that he is not going to awaken; that he is awake, to find his arm in a plaster cast. He eats and sleeps once more, and language. His is an antiliterature that seeks to transgress the literary deed, but is captured. Awake again in the hospital, he thinks of the strange, almost infinite, during the German occupation. Dozing, the book. He wishes to open up the closed literary order—even to create disorder—to establish new perspectives. Cortazar was born in Brussels, he awakens this time pinned to the ground by ropes. The priest is coming toward him with the stone knife, literary style, and that it is the other consciousness which was a dream. He grasps his amulet and prays, Belgium, in 1914, dreaming this time that he is off the trail. His Argentine parents were stationed there while his father was on the staff of a commercial mission. This renovation consists of the destruction of character, situation, thirsty and feverish, form, but this reality quickly merges with the dream. Aztecs in a ritual war and must stay on a trail known only to the Motecas. He wakes, loss of consciousness he had experienced after his accident.
