Blow-Up: And Other Stories [Paperback]

One of the most iconic works by one of the most creative and unexpected authors of the 20th century, a dazzling collection that moves from the uncanny to the sublime, the whimsical to the metaphysical, displaying with great panache at every turn a first-class literary imagination at work (New York Times Book Review).

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 intended victim . . .

Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name—shows Julio Cortázar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.ONE
Axolotl  3
House Taken Over  10 
The Idol of the Cyclades  28
Letter to a Young Lady in Paris  39 
A Yellow Flower  51

TWO
Continuity of Parks  63
The Night Face Up  66
Bestiary  77
The Gates of Heaven  97 
Blow-Up  114

THREE
End of the Game  135 
At Your Service  150 
The Pursuer  182
Secret Weapons  248Praise for Blow-Up and Other Stories:

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

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