A Ghost Story without the Ghost . . .

Have you ever read Julio Cortázar's fiction? Thanks to the newly translated series of world literature published by Kobunsha Publishing, Bestiario is the easiest available collection of his short stories in Japan. The first story is "House Taken Over", which could be summarized as a ghost story without the ghost. Speaking of Cortázar, his novel Hopscotch is one of the most popular Latin American literary works, and you can find its English translation much easier on the Kindle app. Although this novel is well-known as a highly experimental literary work, the e-text version of Hopscotch oddly feels like accidentally opening someone's folder on their PC, which had a lot of text files written by him/her. I hope a newly translated version of this masterpiece of his works will be published from Kobunsha or somewhere else!