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Blow-Up and Other Stories
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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.
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.
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“All hits, no skips. Boy are you ever in good hands with Julio Cortázar.
Each story was a delightful "where the hell is this going? Oh shit it went there!" These are the kinds of stories that make you want to know immediately what other people thought about them. I was googling graduate student essays just to extend the feeling. Most memorable for me were The Night Face Up and At Your Service. I was not vibing with The Pursuer until close to the end when Cortazar tied a big bow that pulled it all together.
I've said I always love Joan Didion's last sentences, because they sting. Julio Cortázar is another ace who can stick the landing. Next I must read Hopscotch.”
“I couldn't finish Hopscotch but his short stories are just so perfect and so good. Like how someone can write The Continuity of Parks and Letters to A Young Lady in Paris is beyond me. One of the greatest Short story writers I will ever read.”
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