The present article enquires into the underlying philosophical conception of the novel Los Premios and in the difficult to classify book Historias de Cronopios de y de Famas by Julio Cortazar. It questions the literary proposal of the Argentinian author: the role of the game in contemporaneous societies, and attempts to place in dialog the conceptions of J. Huizinga, Guilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari with those of the Argentinian author. It shows how the artist vindicates the transcendental mission of the art of playing and the risk it runs in functional societies. It constitutes an advance for a deeper enquiry into other works of this author and into other works of the universal literature.