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ReviewsPraise for Blow-Up and Other Stories : "[Cortazar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night." - Time "Julio Cortazar 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 Cortazar is a dazzler." -William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle "A first-class literary imagination at work." - The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Blow-Up and Other Stories : "[Cortazar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night." -- Time "Julio Cortazar 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 Cortazar is a dazzler." --William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle "A first-class literary imagination at work." -- The New York Times Book Review "Cortazar displays throughout his stories the ability to elevate them above the condition of those gimmicky tales which depend for effect soley 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, Praise for Blow-Up and Other Stories: "[Cortazar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night:" -- Time "Julio Cortazar 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 Cortazar is a dazzler:" -- William Hogan, The San Francisco Chronicle "A first-class literary imagination at work:" -- The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Blow-Up and Other Stories : "[Cortazar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night." - Time "Julio Cortazar 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 Cortazar is a dazzler." -William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle "A first-class literary imagination at work." - The New York Times Book Review "Cortazar displays throughout his stories the ability to elevate them above the condition of those gimmicky tales which depend for effect soley 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
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal863
Table Of ContentONE 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
SynopsisA 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 Cort zar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible., 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.
LC Classification NumberPQ7797.C7145A23 1985