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This experimental novel from 1963, written in an episodic, snapshot manner, has 155 chapters, the last 99 being marked as "expendable". The book can either be read from cover to cover, or hopping from chapter to chapter in the order indicated by the author, or in whatever order the reader prefers.
The book tells episodes from the life of Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine intellectual living in exile in Paris and later returning to Buenos Aires.