A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.
Julio Cortazar (Author)
Julio Cortazar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of
his life, and after that in Paris. His stories, written under the
dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French
surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of
nightmare. In later life Cortazar became a passionate advocate for
human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships
in Latin America. He died in 1984.
A fecund mixture of surrealism, symbolism, nouveau roman
experimentation and Borgesian fantasy, Cortázar enthusiastically
seeds his realistic settings – for the most part split between
Buenos Aires and Paris – with impossible invasions of the
fantastical and supernatural. The effect is often a refined
philosophical take on the "uncanny tales" strand of speculative
fiction
*Guardian*
Cortázar is one of the most distinctive voices in Latin American
literature
*Newsday*
Original...circuitous and powerful... Cortázar's method is to keep
tight control over a world in which, just below the surface of
charming, sophisticated social life, lies the unfaceable and
unmentionable
*Financial Times*
Cortázar can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a
sound in the night
*Time*
A first-class literary imagination at work
*The New York Times Book Review*
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