This story offers a parable for contemporary conundrums regarding territory and legitimacy, although its meaning is open to interpretation.
Driven by fear, they finally abandon and lock up their house, disposing of the key. One night, the siblings hear noises from a different side of the house and, petrified, they seal off the doors, relinquishing half the house to “them.” By the end of the story, they are driven out by the thought of other inhabitants occupying all the remaining rooms-“others” who they never see but who they are convinced exist. It narrates the life of two middle-aged siblings in their inherited mansion, who fastidiously clean its eight bedrooms each day and silently enjoy lunches and dinners in peaceful surroundings. In Bestiario, a book of short stories by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, “Casa Tomada” from 1951 stands out.
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