Julio Cortázar died in Paris in 1984, 40 years after he wrote Hopscotch. The author was one of the most active voices of the resistance from exile during the dictatorship.
His last trip was to his beloved Argentina shortly after the inauguration of Raúl Alfonsín. His grave in the Montparnasse cemetery is one of most visited with red flowers and books. He is accompanied by two of his loves, her last loves, Carol Dunlop, and her first partner Aurora Bernárdez.