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2 Short Story Books by Julio Cortazar (Translation by Paul Blackburn)
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Overview: Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, he influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951. He has been called both a "modern master of the short story" and, by Carlos Fuentes, "the Simón Bolívar of the novel."
Genre: Fiction / Short Stories
Blow-Up and Other Stories
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. It was originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories. The title story of the paperback collection served as inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup.
Cronopios and Famas
"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 the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- "for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity." Finally, the "Cronopios and Famas" section delightfully characterizes, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers." As the Saturday Review remarked; "Each page of Cronopios and Famas sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition.
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Overview: Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, he influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951. He has been called both a "modern master of the short story" and, by Carlos Fuentes, "the Simón Bolívar of the novel."
Genre: Fiction / Short Stories
Blow-Up and Other Stories
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. It was originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories. The title story of the paperback collection served as inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup.
Cronopios and Famas
"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 the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- "for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity." Finally, the "Cronopios and Famas" section delightfully characterizes, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers." As the Saturday Review remarked; "Each page of Cronopios and Famas sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition.
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