A Manual for Manuel

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Cortazar's great political novel, A Manual for Manuel is a personal meditation on the need for revolution - as told by one of the great, wild voice of the Latin American boom In 1970s Paris, a group of revolutionaries plot the daring kidnapping of a powerful Latin American official. But among them is Andres, a man adrift in a world of high-stakes politics. As Andres spirals into a crisis of identity, Cortazar intersects the group's story with real-life documents, newspaper clippings, and personal reflections to construct a compelling mosaic that explores the complexities of revolution, commitment, and the human spirit.

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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.