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"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."
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.
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."
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
Cortazar (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
Fires the Fire contains some of Julio Cortazar's most beloved
stories. It is a classic collection by "one of the world's great
writers" (Washington Post).
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Hopscotch (Paperback)
Julio Cortazar
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R359
R297
Discovery Miles 2 970
Save R62 (17%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin
Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first
time 'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of
Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply
understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds of
potential meanings and intimations' Times Literary Supplement Dazed
by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio
Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris, the sounds of jazz and the
talk of literature, life and art echoing around him. But a chance
encounter with a literary idol and his new work - a novel that can
be read in random order - sends Horatio's mind into further
confusion. As a return to Buenos Aires beckons, Horatio's friend
and fellow artist, Traveler, awaits his arrival with dread -the
lives of these two young writers now ready to play out in an
inexhaustible game of indeterminacy.
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Final Exam (Paperback)
Julio Cortazar; Translated by Alfred MacAdam
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R481
Discovery Miles 4 810
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In its characters, themes, and preoccupations, Final Exam
prefigures Cortazar's later fictions, including Blow-Up and his
masterpiece, Hopscotch. Written in 1950 (just before the fall of
Peron's government), it is Cortazar's allegorical, bitter, and
melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which he was about to be
permanently self-exiled. (Cortazar moved to Paris the following
year.) The setting of Final Exam is a surreal Buenos Aires, dark
and eerie, where a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone's
bewilderment. Juan and Clara, two students, meet up with their
friends Andres and Stella, as well as a journalist friend they call
"the chronicler." Juan and Clara are getting ready to take their
final exams, but instead of preparing, they wander the city with
their friends, encounter strange happenings in the squares and
ponder life in cafes. All the while, they are trailed by the
mysterious Abel. With its daring typography, its shifts in rhythm
as well as in the wildly veering directions of its characters'
thoughts and speech, Final Exam breaks new ground in the territory
of stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques. It is considered
one of Cortazar's best works."
A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's
sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortazar is
truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously
fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin Barry A grieving
family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated
love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills
over into brutality. A lodger's inability to stop vomiting bunny
rabbits inspires a personal confession. As dream melds into
reality, and reality melts into nightmare, one constant remains
throughout these thirty-five stories: the singular brilliance of
Julio Cortazar's imagination. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN
BARRY 'Anyone who doesn't read Cortazar is doomed' Pablo Neruda
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 victim...In the stories collected here -- including "Blow-Up;' on which Antonioni based his film -- Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form.
With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short
stories, Julio Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative
authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures
of an Argentinean writer living in Paris with his lover and a
circle of bohemian friends, and consists of 155 short chapters that
the author advises us to read out of order. Blow-Up brings together
the most famous of Cortazar's short fiction--stories where
invisible beasts stalk children in their homes, where a man reading
a mystery finds out that he is the murderer's intended victim. In
Cortazar's work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative all fall
away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.
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The Seven Madmen (Paperback)
Roberto Arlt; Introduction by Julio Cortazar; Translated by Nick Caistor
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R501
Discovery Miles 5 010
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The first translation of Julio Cortazar's genre-jumping
meta-comic/novella, featuring Cortazar himself, Susan Sontag, and
Octavio Paz in a race to prevent international bibliocide. Octavio
Paz: "If you love art, do something, Fantomas!" Fantomas: "I will,
you can depend on it." First published in Spanish in 1975 and
previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires
is Julio Cortazar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in
the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in Latin America
and his cameo appearance in issue number 201 of the Mexican comic
book series Fantomas: The Elegant Menace. With his characteristic
narrative inventiveness, Cortazar offers a quixotic
meta-comic/novella that challenges not only the form of the novel
but its political weight in contemporary cultural life. Needing
something to read on the train from Brussels (where he had attended
the ineffectual tribunal meeting), our hero (Julio Cortazar) picks
up the latest issue of the Fantomas comic. He grows increasingly
absorbed by the comic book's tale of bibliocide (a sinister
bibliophobic plot to obliterate every book from the archives of
humanity), especially when he sees the character Fantomas embark
upon a series of telephone conversations with literary figures,
starting with "The Great Argentine Writer" himself, Julio Cortazar
(and also including Octavio Paz and a tough-talking Susan Sontag).
Soon, Cortazar begins to erase the thin line between real-life
atrocities and fictional mayhem in an attempt to bring attention to
the human rights violations taking place with impunity in the
country from which he was exiled.
Con el titulo de Las armas secretas, Cortazar publico este y cuatro
relatos mas: Cartas de mama, Los buenos servicios, Las babas de l
diablo y El perseguidor. Destaca este ultimo, pues con el inaugura
una nueva manera de sentir la realidad y de moverse en ella.
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