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By Julio Cortazar

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About the Author

JULIO CORTAZAR was born in 1914 in Belgium to Argentinean parents, grew up in Buenos Aires, and moved to Paris in 1951. An acclaimed and influential novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, and essayist, he was also a human-rights advocate and amateur jazz musician. He died in Paris in 1984.

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Praise for "Blow-Up and Other Stories"

"[Cortazar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night."
--"Time

""Julio Cortazar is a stunning writer. It is difficult to imagine how he could improve as a writer of short stories."
--"The Christian Science Monitor
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"A glittering showcase for a daring talent . . . Julio Cortazar is a dazzler."
--William Hogan, "San Francisco Chronicle
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"A first-class literary imagination at work."
--"The New York Times Book Review

""Cortazar displays throughout his stories the ability to elevate them above the condition of those gimmicky tales which depend for effect soley on a twist ending. His genius here lies in the knack for constructing striking, artistically 'right' subordinate circumstances out of which his fantastic and metaphysical whimsies appear normally to spring."
--"Saturday Review"