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OverviewA collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortazar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin Barry A grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills over into brutality. A lodger's inability to stop vomiting bunny rabbits inspires a personal confession. As dream melds into reality, and reality melts into nightmare, one constant remains throughout these thirty-five stories- the singular brilliance of Julio Cortazar's imagination. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN BARRY 'Anyone who doesn't read Cortazar is doomed' Pablo Neruda Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julio Cortazar , Kevin BarryPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Classics Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.255kg ISBN: 9781784875855ISBN 10: 1784875856 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 06 February 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA first-class literary imagination at work * The New York Times Book Review * Cortazar can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night * Time * Original...circuitous and powerful... Cortazar's method is to keep tight control over a world in which, just below the surface of charming, sophisticated social life, lies the unfaceable and unmentionable * Financial Times * Cortazar is one of the most distinctive voices in Latin American literature * Newsday * A fecund mixture of surrealism, symbolism, nouveau roman experimentation and Borgesian fantasy, Cortazar enthusiastically seeds his realistic settings - for the most part split between Buenos Aires and Paris - with impossible invasions of the fantastical and supernatural. The effect is often a refined philosophical take on the uncanny tales strand of speculative fiction * Guardian * A fecund mixture of surrealism, symbolism, nouveau roman experimentation and Borgesian fantasy, Cortazar enthusiastically seeds his realistic settings - for the most part split between Buenos Aires and Paris - with impossible invasions of the fantastical and supernatural. The effect is often a refined philosophical take on the uncanny tales strand of speculative fiction * Guardian * Cortazar is one of the most distinctive voices in Latin American literature * Newsday * Original...circuitous and powerful... Cortazar's method is to keep tight control over a world in which, just below the surface of charming, sophisticated social life, lies the unfaceable and unmentionable * Financial Times * Cortazar can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night * Time * A first-class literary imagination at work * The New York Times Book Review * A fecund mixture of surrealism, symbolism, nouveau roman experimentation and Borgesian fantasy, Cortazar enthusiastically seeds his realistic settings - for the most part split between Buenos Aires and Paris - with impossible invasions of the fantastical and supernatural. The effect is often a refined philosophical take on the uncanny tales strand of speculative fiction * Guardian * Cortazar is one of the most distinctive voices in Latin American literature * Newsday * Original...circuitous and powerful... Cortazar's method is to keep tight control over a world in which, just below the surface of charming, sophisticated social life, lies the unfaceable and unmentionable * Financial Times * Cortazar can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night * Time * A first-class literary imagination at work * The New York Times Book Review * Author InformationJulio Cortazar (Author) Julio Cortazar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of his life, and after that in Paris. His stories, written under the dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of nightmare. In later life Cortazar became a passionate advocate for human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships in Latin America. He died in 1984. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |