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Stories like “Casa Tomada” (House Taken Over) and “Carta a una señorita en París” (Letter to a Young Lady in Paris) are masterclasses in slow-building horror and quiet absurdity. Cortázar doesn’t explain the strange—he makes you feel it as natural, then deeply wrong.