ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores a complex threshold which has perhaps silently exerted its influence throughout, and which both includes and is at the same time an effect of the different, intersecting frames, marches, margins and frontiers which have traversed the entire text–that is, the threshold which distinguishes and interrelates the 'modern(ist)' and the so-called 'postmodernist'. It indicates the critics have often allowed themselves to be captivated by the powerfully nostalgic streak in Cortázar's writing, and to have rushed to accord it a place within the modernist or even late Romantic traditions. The book shows that the attempt to distinguish between modernism and postmodernism must involve a reconsideration of the question of the limit(s) of metaphysics, and the thinking of this limit does not permit a straightfoward either/or choice.
