The Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar and the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze have one thing in common: the need to think of a hidden order of reality that would be located beyond everything that we have accepted as a stable whole of the real. Cortázar examines the widely accepted concept of reality through a form of fantastic in literature; Deleuze is turning to philosophy and conceptualizes the metaphysics of actual/virtual. To what extent can we link the intelectual and creative paths of the two authors, and how can we apply Deleuze's concept of temporality to Cortázar's understanding of the short story? Are similar thought processes between Cortázar and Deleuze being revealed to us in Cortázar's short story »The Möbius Strip«? How can we understand the ethical problems of this story through the prism of metaphysics?
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