Blow-Up: And Other Stories

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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 murderers intended victim . . .

Originally published in hardcover asEnd of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected hereincluding Blow-Up, which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonionis film of the same nameshows Julio Cortzar's nimble capacity to explorethe shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.

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Praise for Blow-Up and Other Stories:

"[Cortzar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night."
Time

"Julio Cortzar is a stunning writer. It is difficult to imagine how he could improve as a writer of short stories."
The Christian Science Monitor

"A glittering showcase for a daring talent . . . Julio Cortzar is a dazzler."
San Francisco Chronicle

"A first-class literary imagination at work."
The New York Times Book Review

"Cortzar displays throughout his stories the ability to elevate them above the condition of those gimmicky tales which depend for effect solely on a twist ending. His genius here lies in the knack for constructing striking, artistically 'right' subordinate circumstances out of which his fantastic and metaphysical whimsies appear normally to spring."
Saturday Review

Author Bio

JULIO CORTZARwas born in Brussels to Argentinian parents in 1914, was raised in Argentina, and in 1952 moved to Paris, where he continued to live for the rest of his life. He was a poet, translator, an amateur jazz musician as well as the author of several novels and volumes of short stories. Ten of his books have been published in English:The Winners, Hopscotch(which won the National Book Award), Blow-Up and Other Stories, Cronopios and Famas, 62: A Model Kit, A Change of Light, We Love Glenda So Much,andA Certain Lucas.He receivedthe Prix MdicisAward (France, 1974) and the Rubn Daro Order of Cultural Independence (Nicaragua, 1983),among other accolades.Considered one of the great modern Latin American authors, he died in Paris in February 1984.