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Blow-Up

And Other Stories

And Other Stories

By Julio Cortazar

By Julio Cortazar

By Julio Cortazar

By Julio Cortazar

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Feb 12, 1985 | ISBN 9780394728810

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    About Blow-Up

    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 intended victim . . .

    Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name—shows Julio Cortázar’s nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.

    About Blow-Up

    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 intended victim . . .

    Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name—shows Julio Cortázar’s nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.

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    About Julio Cortazar

    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… More about Julio Cortazar

    About Julio Cortazar

    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… More about Julio Cortazar

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Pantheon
    Feb 12, 1985 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780394728810

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Pantheon
    Aug 05, 2014 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780804153249

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    Praise

    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

    Table Of Contents

    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

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