A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim...
In the stories collected here--including Blow-Up, on which Antonioni based his film--Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form.
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's ...
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim . . . In the fifteen stories collected here--including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name--Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murdere...
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling,...
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who liv...
One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortazar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche Boca Arriba and Final del Juego (1956), Las Babas del Diablo (1959), La Isla a Mediodia (1966), Recortes de Prensa and Queremos Tanto a Glenda (1981) and Botella al Mar (1982). Of the seven stories, some are famous examples of his contribution to the genre of 'fantastic' literature, while others demonstrate his social and political concerns....
One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortazar made a contribution of international importance to the development ...
The setting ofFinal Exam is a surreal Buenos Aires, dark and eerie, where a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone's bewilderment. Juan and Clara, two students, meet up with their friends Andres and Stella, as well as a journalist friend they call "the chronicler." Juan and Clara are getting ready to take their final exams, but instead of preparing, they wander the city with their friends, encounter strange happenings in the squares and ponder life in cafes. All the while, they are trailed by the mysterious Abel. With its daring typography, its shifts in rhythm as well as in...
The setting ofFinal Exam is a surreal Buenos Aires, dark and eerie, where a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone's bewilderment. Ju...
Rayuela gilt als das Hauptwerk von Julio Cortzar. Als Komplize kann der Leser dem Weg folgen, den Cortzar ihm spielerisch durch den Roman bahnt, und seinen Protagonisten Horacio Oliveira von Paris nach Buenos Aires begleiten.
Rayuela gilt als das Hauptwerk von Julio Cortzar. Als Komplize kann der Leser dem Weg folgen, den Cortzar ihm spielerisch durch den Roman bahnt, und s...
El mas travieso de sus libros. Mario Vargas Llosa Incluye, en exclusiva, la historia de la creacion del libro contada a traves de las cartas de Julio Cortazar y una guia para leer al autor. Con motivo del 50 aniversario de Alfaguara, este titulo ha sido elegido como uno de los 50 imprescindibles de la historia de la editorial. Historias de cronopios y de famas es uno de los libros legendarios de Julio Cortazar. Postulacion de una mirada poetica capaz de enfrentar las miserias de la rutina y del sentido comun, Cortazar toma aqui partido por la imaginacion creadora y el...
El mas travieso de sus libros. Mario Vargas Llosa Incluye, en exclusiva, la historia de la creacion del libro contada a traves de las cartas ...
En este volumen, los lectores y lectoras encontraran todas las colecciones de cuentos de Cortazar publicadas entre 1945 y 1966 y, como novedad, aquellos relatos aparecidos postumamente en Papeles inesperados (2009) que por titulo o fecha pudieron pertenecer a ellas: La otra orilla, Bestiario, Las armas secretas, Final del juego, Historias de cronopios y de famas y Todos los fuegos el fuego conforman este primer volumen de los cuentos completos cortazarianos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Cortazar is a must for any reader. His stories brilliantly portray unlikely beings full of magic and...
En este volumen, los lectores y lectoras encontraran todas las colecciones de cuentos de Cortazar publicadas entre 1945 y 1966 y, como novedad, aquell...
