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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



A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.

About the Author

Julio 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.



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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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781784875855
Author Julio Cortazar
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 255g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 22mm

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