Julio Cortázar Boeken

Julio Cortazar's collection features a blend of the ordinary and the mysterious, showcasing tales that delve into unsettling themes. A young girl's summer at a country house with a roaming tiger and a man's grim realization of his fate as a murder victim highlight the collection's unique narratives. Among these stories is "Blow-Up," which inspired a film by Antonioni. Cortazar's masterful storytelling invites readers to navigate the thin line between reality and the uncanny, making this a celebrated work in the realm of short fiction.

The book features a series of eight classes by renowned Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These sessions blend personal reflections on his writing journey with insights into literature and the cultural context of his time. Cortázar discusses topics like the writer's path and the nature of the fantastic, offering an intimate glimpse into his creative process and thoughts. This collection serves as an essential resource for those studying Cortázar's work, providing a unique opportunity to engage with the author's ideas directly.

Cortazar's stories are like small time pieces, where each polished part moves relentlessly on its own particular path, exercising a crucial and perpetual influence on the mechanism as a whole. Moments jerk forward and retract, reflect and refract: an island at noon from an aeroplane - an aeroplane at noon from an island; the living deceiving the dying and also themselves, about death; fatality by fire in an ancient Roman arena and in a modern city apartment. It is a world that is constantly shifting, upsetting our balance and our peace of mind, a world outside of time that provokes a fascination bordering on terror. Cortazar is the master of the form and this celebrated collection houses some of his finest work.

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.Axolotl House taken over Distances Idol of the Cyclades Letter to a young lady in Paris Yellow flower Continuity of parks Night face up Bestiary Gates of heaven Blow-up End of the game At your service Pursuer Secret weapons.

A love story and an irreverent travelogue of elaborate tales and snapshots detailing Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop's thirty-three-day voyage on the Paris-Marseilles freeway in 1982.

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 of potential meanings and intimations' Times Literary Supplement Dazed by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris, the sounds of jazz and the talk of literature, life and art echoing around him. But a chance encounter with a literary idol and his new work – a novel that can be read in random order – sends Horatio’s mind into further confusion. As a return to Buenos Aires beckons, Horatio’s friend and fellow artist, Traveler, awaits his arrival with dread –the lives of these two young writers now ready to play out in an inexhaustible game of indeterminacy.

This collection features three seminal works by Julio Cortázar, a pivotal figure in world literature and a key contributor to the Latin American Boom. Published together for the first time, these writings celebrate the centenary of Cortázar's birth, showcasing his innovative narrative style and profound impact on literature.

Newly expanded edition of a classic: the first and only collection of Cortazar's poetry to appear in English.

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 BarryA grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion.