Julio Cortázar
1) Rayuela
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Series
Language
Español
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El amor turbulento de Oliveira y La Maga, los amigos del Club de la Serpiente, las impredecibles caminatas por París -la ciudad que promete el cielo pero puede conducir al infierno-, encuentran su contracara en la aventura protagonizada por Oliveira, Talita y Traveler en Buenos Aires.
"When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires, in a novel in which the chapters...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"One of the most adventurous and rewarding collections since the publication of Cortázar's own Blow-up." —Los Angeles Times
A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch...Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1385
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
5) Hopscotch
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires.
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
This book is basically a game, a game for the reader. The last story in the book "End of the Game" is simply the end of that joy that we feel when we read. Determined to go beyond the laws of conventional narrative, in these stories Julio Cortázar combines intertextuality, an unpublished use of the informal, and the never-ending game to make the reader enter a unique universe where nothing is what it seems. From the masterful Continuidad de los parques...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch and the short story "Blow-Up") creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where lives intersect for brief moments and situations break and refract. All...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Gathers the uncollected writings of the noted Argentine author, including previously unpublished stories, alternate versions of other tales, an unknown chapter of "Libro de Manuel," speeches, articles, interviews, poems, and other works.
12) The Seven Madmen
Author
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortazar ("If there's one person in my country I feel close to, it's Roberto Arlt"), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the crowded, confusing streets of Buenos Aires, thronging with immigrants...
13) Blow-up
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder. Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Best Screenplay.
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