Results for "Cortázar, Julio"

"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory RabassaHoracio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loo... Read More about Hopscotch: A Novel

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 “B... Read More about Blow-Up: And Other Stories

“One of the most adventurous and rewarding collections since the publication of Cortázar’s own Blow-up.” —Los Angeles Times A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Gr... Read More about All Fires the Fire

ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWritten between 1937 and 1945, these stories are Cortazar's first leap into story telling. As a model of self-criticism, he refused to publish almost all of them; fifty years later critics acclaimed them as an impressive sample that anticipated the capacities of this magnificent w... Read More about La otra orilla

La obra maestra de Julio Cortázar. Una novela que conmocionó el panorama cultural de su tiempo y marcó un hito insoslayable dentro de la narrativa contemporánea. «Contranovela», «crónica de una locura», «el agujero negro de un enorme embudo», «un feroz sacudón por las solapas», «un grito de ... Read More about Rayuela / Hopscotch

Once relatos en los que Cortázar vuelve a erigirse como el gran cuentista argentino. «También en el ajedrez y en el amor hay esos instantes en que la niebla se triza y es entonces que se cumplen las jugadas o los actos que un segundo antes hubieran sido inconcebibles.»   Alguien que anda por ah... Read More about Alguien que anda por ahí / Someone Out There