Julio Cortazar (1914-1984) is a classic of not only Argentine but also world literature of the 20th century. His novel “62. Model for assembly” is one of the author’s most unusual works. The reason for writing it was the 62nd chapter of the novel “The Game of Hopscotch”. Psychological motives are not in the foreground here: the behavior of the characters completely depends on what the writer himself calls a “figure”, or constellation. They act without knowing that they are being guided by outside forces...