Details

ISBN-10: 0394728815
ISBN-13: 9780394728810
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publish Date: 02/12/1985
Dimensions: 7.99" L, 5.20" W, 0.76" H

Blow-Up: And Other Stories

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Price: $17.00

Overview

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 intended victim . . .

Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here–including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name–shows Julio Cortázar’s nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.

  • Julio Cortázar was born in Brussels in 1914 to Argentinian parents and raised in Argentina, where as a young man he worked as a secondary-school teacher, university professor, and professional translator. In 1951 he moved to Paris, where he earned his primary living as a translator for UNESCO. He is regarded internationally as a modern master of the short story and his novel Hopscotch is considered a seminal work of the Latin American fiction "boom" of the 1960s. Cortázar's other books in English include Blow-Up and Other Stories, 62: A Model Kit, The Winners, All Fires the Fire, A Manual for Manuel, Cronopios and Famas, A Change of Light, We Love Glenda So Much, A Certain Lucas, Unreasonable Hours, and Around the Day in Eighty Worlds. He died in Paris in 1984

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Praise for Blow-Up and Other Stories

"[Cortázar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night."
Time

"Julio Cortázar is a stunning writer. It is difficult to imagine how he could improve as a writer of short stories."
The Christian Science Monitor

"A glittering showcase for a daring talent . . . Julio Cortázar is a dazzler."
San Francisco Chronicle

"A first-class literary imagination at work."
The New York Times Book Review

"Cortázar displays throughout his stories the ability to elevate them above the condition of those gimmicky tales which depend for effect solely on a twist ending. His genius here lies in the knack for constructing striking, artistically 'right' subordinate circumstances out of which his fantastic and metaphysical whimsies appear normally to spring."
Saturday Review

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Details

ISBN-10: 0394728815
ISBN-13: 9780394728810
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publish Date: 02/12/1985
Dimensions: 7.99" L, 5.20" W, 0.76" H
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