The story begins by introducing a landowner who escapes from his business responsibilities by taking refuge in his study to read a novel. There are several allusions that parody the murder mystery, both in its rules and in its logic.
The second paragraph provides detailed description, an excess of information, that constitutes a case of paralysis. The first paragraph presents the frame story of the man reading and the embedded story of the lovers meeting in a cabin in the woods.
The story is divided in two paragraphs of 380 and 170 words.
The fourth is the conflict between an editor who claims that there is a fourth park, and another editor who disputes this interpretation. The first is the author and reader of "The Continuity of Parks", the second is the frame story of a man of business reading a novel, and the third is the embedded story about the two lovers. The name of the story refers to the different contexts, or reality planes, which are identified as "parks". At the end of the story, the drama he does not want to be a part of is his own. The reader of the novel is an ironic adaptation of Cortázar's passive reader, who "does not want problems but solutions, or false problems that allow others to suffer comfortably sitting in his chair, without committing himself to the drama that should also be his". The structure of the story is broken when one of the characters of the novel, the embedded story, introduces himself into the reality of the frame story. The novel that he is reading, the embedded story, describes two lovers who meet in a cabin in the woods, with a plan to destroy "that other body". The frame story presents a man reading a novel on his return to his home estate after completing some "urgent business" in town. In the story, reality and fiction intertwine through a story within a story. "The Continuity of Parks" is a short story written by Julio Cortázar, which is, according to Lauro Zavala, "simultaneously the fiction and metafiction most studied in the history of literature".
It was first published in 1964 in the Editorial Sudamericana. " Continuidad de los parques" ("The Continuity of Parks") is a short story in Spanish by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (1914–1984). Short story by Julio Cortázar "Continuidad de los parques"
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