"Casa Tomada" takes place in a Buenos Aires that is undergoing dramatic changes. In the 1940s, following an unprecedented rural-to-urban migration during the rise of Peronism, the working class became increasingly more visible in the capital and disruptive to its elites.
Cortázar's story, which dramatizes this economic tension, is a possible urtext for Samanta Schweblin's Seven Empty Houses, a collection of seven short stories all set in today's class-segregated Buenos Aires.
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