Julio Cortazar's House Taken Over

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Closely related in Julio Cortazar’s short story, “House Taken Over,” a brother and sister are pushed out of their house by an unknown entity. As the brother and sister keep worrying the sister expresses, “In that case, she said, picking up her needles again, “We’ll have to live on this side” (Cortazar 40). As we read “House Taken Over,” we see that there is an unstated entity in their house. The brother and sister see that their house is being overtaken , and they remain calm at the beginning of the story. Later on, they are so overcome with fear that they lock up the house and leave for the streets. All the couple has with them is the clothes they are wearing. In Gothic Literature, the main focus is fear, and we can very well notice the

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