Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
JULIO CORTAZAR was born in Brussels to Argentinian parents in 1914, was raised in Argentina, and in 1952 moved to Paris, where he continued to live for the rest of his life. He was a poet, translator, an amateur jazz musician as well as the author of several novels and volumes of short stories. Ten of his books have been published in English: The Winners, Hopscotch (which won the National Book Award), Blow-Up and Other Stories, Cronopios and Famas, 62: A Model Kit, A Change of Light, We Love Glenda So Much, and A Certain Lucas. Considered one of the great modern Latin American authors, he died in Paris in February 1984.
Table of Contents
"Axolotl"
"House Taken Over"
"The Idol of the Cyclades"
"Letter to a Young Lady in Paris"
"A Yellow Flower"
"Continuity of Parks"
"The Night Face Up"
"Bestiary"
"The Gates of Heaven"
"Blow-Up"
"End of the Game"
"At Your Service"
"The Pursuer"
"Secret Weapons"