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A TL;DR I wrote for "The Lies Behind Their Masks"(TLBTM) by EmberDragon34 with permission. (August 2021) (Revised December 2021)
A blueprint, and textual evidence to support said blueprint, for the hous...
Here is my version of the narrator and Irene's house from "House Taken Over" ("Casa Tomada"), a short story by Julio Cortázar.
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Textual evidence:
"How not to remember the layout of that house. The dining room, a living room with tapestries, the library and three large bedrooms in the section most recessed, the one that faced toward Rodríguez Peña. Only a corridor with its massive oak door separated that part from the front wing, where there was a bath, the kitchen, our bedrooms and the hall. One entered the house through a vestibule with enameled tiles, and a wrought-iron grated door opened onto the living room. You had to come in through the vestibule and open the gate to go into the living room; the doors to our bedrooms were on either side of this, and opposite it was the corridor leading to the back section; going down the passage, one swung open the oak door beyond which was the other part of the house; or just before the door, one could turn to the left and go down a narrower passageway which led to the kitchen and the bath. When the door was open, you became aware of the size of the house; when it was closed, you had the impression of an apartment, like the ones they build today, with barely enough room to move around in" (Paragraph 5).
From this we can garner that the dining room, living room, library, and three bedrooms are in the back section. There is a bathroom, kitchen, two bedrooms, and another living room in the front section. The two sections are separated by a door that is in a passageway. To the left of the door, there is another passageway that leads to the bathroom and kitchen. It is narrower than the main passageway. The very front of the house consists of a vestibule that borders a living room. The passageway is on the opposite side of the living room from the vestibule. The living room is very small and there are two bedrooms on either side of it.
"I went down the corridor as far as the oak door, which was ajar, then turned into the hall toward the kitchen, when I heard something in the library or the dining room. . . I heard it at the end of the passage which led from those two rooms toward the door" (Paragraph 6).
These two sentences suggest that the library and dining room are far enough from the living room (and bedrooms) to be told apart acoustically. There is also a passage that leads from those two rooms towards the passageway, where the narrator stands.
"I hurled myself against the door before it was too late and shut it. . ." (Paragraph 6).
This sentence tells the reader that the door opens towards the front of the house.
". . .almost always getting together in Irene's bedroom, which was the more comfortable" (Paragraph 18).
I interpreted this sentence as meaning that the front bedrooms were not equally sized, although in hindsight, the difference in comfortableness might due to the arrangement of furniture.
"In the kitchen or the bath, which adjoined the part that was taken over. . ." (Paragraph 22).
From this statement, I deduced that the passageway linking the kitchen and bathroom to the main hall was closer to the front of the house, although it can also be read to mean something else.
". . .they were on our side of the oak door, if not the kitchen then the bath, or in the hall itself at the turn, almost next to us" (Paragraph 23).
I have posthumously decided that this sentence supports my decision that the bedroom borders the passageway.
Thank you for reading! I hope that you have enjoyed my drawing and reasoning for how I drew the house. I would recommend reading "House Taken Over" as it is a very thrilling and mysterious book. Enjoy your weekend!
