Julio Cortázar

"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...

Combines brief excerpts from the noted Argentine writer's works, grouped alphabetically from "Abuela" to "ZZZ", with personal photographs and illustrations of manuscripts, book covers, and other artifacts from his life.

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 are designed to be read out of numerical order but in a set sequence. La obra maestra de Julio Cortázar. Una novela que conmocionó el panorama cultural de su tiempo y marcó un hito insoslayable dentro de la narrativa contemporánea. «Contranovela», «crónica de una locura»,...