$24.12
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2020
Summary
Cortázar’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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784875862 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784875864 |
| Author: | Julio Cortázar |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 395g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 35mm |
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Cortazar’s masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America
Cortazar’s masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America * Times Literary Supplement *One of the great existentialist novels, worthy to stand alongside the efforts of Sartre and Camus * LA Review of Books *Marks the true possibility of encounter between the Latin–American imagination and the contemporary worldAnyone who doesn’t read Cortázar is doomed – Pablo NerudaI’m permanently indebted to the work of Cortázar – Roberto Bolaño
About The Author
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortazar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of his life, and after that in Paris. His stories, written under the dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of nightmare. In later life Cortazar became a passionate advocate for human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships in Latin America. He died in 1984.
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