Question

At a cabin, a woman in this one-page story kisses the bloodied face of her knife-wielding lover before they depart on opposite-facing paths. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this metafictional short story. In this story, a man sitting in a green velvet armchair reads about two lovers’ plan to murder a man who is reading a novel while sitting in a green velvet armchair.
ANSWER: “The Continuity of Parks” [or “Continuidad de los parques”]
[10e] “The Continuity of Parks” is a short story by this Argentine author who also wrote the optionally nonlinear novel Hopscotch.
ANSWER: Julio Cortázar
[10m] Hopscotch is primarily set in this city, where Horacio Oliveira searches for his lover La Maga. The narrator of another Cortázar story is entranced by the “golden eyes” of the titular axolotl in a botanical garden in this city.
ANSWER: Paris
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