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BESTIARY by CORTAZAR JULIO
Category: Fiction
A 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 ...Show more
Bestiary by Julio CORTAZAR
Category: Classic Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN BARRY'Anyone who doesn't read Cortazar is doomed' Pablo NerudaA 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 ...Show more
Blow-up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar
Category: Fiction
In the stories hereâ including "Blow Up," on which Antonioni based his filmâ Cortá zar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious.
Cronopios and Famas by Cortazar, Julio, Blackburn, Paul
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Classic Ser.
Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortazar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists. "The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes t ...Show more
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
Category: Fiction
Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time 'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds ...Show more
Hopscotch by CORTAZAR Julio
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Writers Ser.
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of Bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oli ...Show more
Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much by Julio Cortazar
Category: Fiction
In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With these two books--the "counter-novel" "Hopscotch" and the short-story collection "Blow-Up"--Cortazar earned a place a ...Show more
Hopscotch and Blow-Up by Julio Cortazar
Category: Short Stories
Description: With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio CortBzar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of an Argentinean writer living in Paris with his lover and a circle of bohemian friends, and co ...Show more
Literature Class by Julio Cortazar
Category: Languages and Reference
"I want you to know that I'm not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise." So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortazar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These "classes" are as much reflections on Cortazar's own writ ...Show more
all fires the fire by Suzanne Jill Levine; Julio Cortazar
Category: Fiction
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 Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cort zar (author of Hopscotch and the shor ...Show more
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