«On the fifth day she saw him follow Flora who was going to the store and everything became future, something like the pages that were missing in that novel left face down on a sofa, something already written and that it was not even necessary to read because it was already fulfilled before the reading, it had already happened before it happened in the reading.”

La stab / The tango of the return was born from the collaboration in 1979 between Pat Andrea, then a young Dutch painter, and the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.
Andrea travels to Argentina on March 25, 1976, one day after the coup that began General Videla's dictatorship. The brutality and commotion that he experienced during that time led him to make, already in Europe, a series of thirty-four drawings whose obsessive theme is stabbing, an image also taken from that tango of the same name played by the Juan D'Arienzo orchestra .
With the idea of ​​making a book based on these illustrations, Pat Andrea contacts Julio Cortázar in Paris, who after seeing the illustrations is fascinated by them and gives him a story, El tango de lavuelta.
La puñalada / El tango de lavuelta is a work practically inaccessible until now, created by one of the most outstanding Latin American writers of the 20th century and one of the most representative plastic artists of neo-expressionism.