ONE
Axolotl 3
House Taken Over 10
The Idol of the Cyclades 28
Letter to a Young Lady in Paris 39
A Yellow Flower 51
TWO
Continuity of Parks 63
The Night Face Up 66
Bestiary 77
The Gates of Heaven 97
Blow-Up 114
THREE
End of the Game 135
At Your Service 150
The Pursuer 182
Secret Weapons 248
JULIO CORTÁZAR was born in Brussels to Argentinian
parents in 1914, was raised in Argentina, and in 1952 moved to
Paris, where he continued to live for the rest of his life. He was
a poet, translator, an amateur jazz musician as well as the author
of several novels and volumes of short stories. Ten of his books
have been published in English: The Winners,
Hopscotch (which won the National Book Award), Blow-Up and
Other Stories, Cronopios and Famas, 62: A Model Kit, A Change of
Light, We Love Glenda So Much, and A Certain
Lucas. He received the Prix Médicis Award (France,
1974) and the Rubén Darío Order of Cultural Independence
(Nicaragua, 1983), among other accolades. Considered one
of the great modern Latin American authors, he died in Paris in
February 1984.
Praise for Blow-Up and Other Stories:
"[Cortázar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of
chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night."
—Time
"Julio Cortázar is a stunning writer. It is difficult to imagine
how he could improve as a writer of short stories."
—The Christian Science Monitor
"A glittering showcase for a daring talent . . . Julio Cortázar is
a dazzler."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"A first-class literary imagination at work."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Cortázar displays throughout his stories the ability to elevate
them above the condition of those gimmicky tales which depend for
effect solely 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
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