Collection of short stories by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar translated into English. Hardcover in dust jacket.

A Change of Light and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Julio Cortázar

Contemporary

Harvill Press

The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America

Jorge Luís Borges

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Carlos Fuentes

OCTAVIO PAZ

José Donoso

JORGE AMADO

GABRIELA MISTRAL

Pablo-neruda

Avon/Books

Argentinian novelist, Julio Cortazar, offers 15 essays written between 1976 and 1983 on the artistic renaissance which followed the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, the Contra war and the writer's role in Latin America. Included here is Cortazar's speech upon receiving the Ruben Dario award.

Nicaraguan Sketches

History

Americas

WW Norton & Co.

A Manual for Manuel

World Literature

Pantheon Books

The masterful Argentinian writer includes nineteen stories penned during the last seven years, tales about a couple's adventurous vacation in Africa, a disturbed man's erotic subway games, and other intriguing activities and situations

Alfred.A. Knopf

A series of short takes carries readers into the mind and life of one man, back out to his trendy world, and--once again--into his life, creating a rounded portrait of an individual

A Certain Lucas

Literary

Translated from the Spanish By Gregory Rabassa. Ten short stories. Dust jacket design by Fred Marcellino.

We Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales

Short Stories & Anthologies

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.

Blow-Up: And Other Stories

United States

62: A Model Kit

First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortázar's brilliant, intricate blueprint for life in the so-called "City." As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in Oslo. This cityscape, as Carlos Fuentes describes it, "seems drawn up by the Marx Brothers with an assist from Bela Lugosi!" It is the meeting place for a wild assortment of bohemians in a novel described by The New York Times as "Deeply touching, enjoyable, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious." Library Journal has said 62: A Model Kit is "a highly satisfying work by one of the most extraordinary writers of our time."

62: a Model Kit

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- "for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity." Finally, the "Cronopios and Famas" section delightfully characterizes, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers." As the Saturday Review remarked: "Each page of Cronopios and Famas sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition."

Cronopios and Famas

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