Julio Cortazar: Short Stories
describe the house in which the narrator and his sister lived in
house taken over
house taken over
From the text:
We
liked
the
house
because,
apart
from
its
being
old
and
spacious
(in
a
day
when
old
houses
go
down
for
a
profitable
auction
of
their
construction
materials),
it
kept
the
memories
of
great‐grandparents,
our
paternal
grandfather,
our
parents
and
the
whole
of
childhood.
The
dinning
room,
a
living
room
with
tapestries,
the
library,
and
three
large
bedrooms
in
the
section
most
recessed,
the
one
that
faced
toward
Rodriguez
Pena.
Only
a
corridor
with
its
massive
oak
door
separated
that
part
from
the
front
wing,
where
there
was
a
bath,
the
kitchen,
our
bedrooms
and
the
hall.
One
entered
the
house
through
a
vestibule
with
enameled
tiles,
and
a
wrought‐iron
gated
door
opened
onto
the
living
room.