All Fires the Fire [Paperback]

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 Cort?zar (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 Cort?zars most beloved stories. It is a classic collection by one of the worlds great writers (Washington Post).One of the most adventurous and rewarding collections since the publication of Cort?zars own The noted Argentinian authors incomparable elegance shines through these eight stories. In this playful and scintillating set of fabulist tales by Argentine master Cort?zar, characters are shuffled through shifting realities. Cort?zar fans will devour these affecting stories. He was, perhaps without trying, the Argentine who made the whole world love him. Anyone who doesnt read Cort?zar is doomed. Im permanently indebted to the work of Cort?zar.