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
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
