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5 reviews
Julio Cortazar

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000

Enter this labyrinth if you dare
The way in is through a looking-glass that is also a vampire-haunted castle and at the sa e time a city that is all cities. Be forewarned that once you have entered the Zone, you will never completely leave it. You will find yourself in its shadowed galleries, its furtive plazas, its unpredictable elevators, from time to time for the rest of your life. You will ask questions that will never be ...

Rayuela

24 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Punto de Lectura, 2007

"Of all our feelings the only one which doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life defending itself."
It has taken me years to sit down and finally make a serious commitment to read Julio Cortazar's "Hopscotch/La Rayuela." I cannot think of a better companion to devote a few weeks to, maybe even longer - hey, whatever it takes! It depends on your reading speed and the time you take to truly savor the poetry of the author's language. So, be willing to make a small personal investment in this very ...

Cuentos Completos 1, Cortazar (Complete Short Stories 1, Cortazar)
Julio Cortazar

Punto de Lectura, 2007

The first of three exceptional volumes of short stories written by this immortal master. His stories are a brilliant painting of improbable, magical and tender beings. They are the best mixture of his Literature, and are also the opportunity to embark on an endless trip. This volume includes: La otra orilla, Bestiario, Las armas secretas, and Final del juego.

End of the Game

2 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Harpercollins, 1978

One of a kind
This is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. Don't be thrown off by the "out of print"...it's still available--now under the name "Blow-up"... republished after one of the stories was made into a movie.

Historias de cronopios y de famas (Narrativa)

1 review
Julio Cortazar

Punto de Lectura, 2007

beauty becomes a book
Este tiene que ser uno de los libros más hermosos en la historia del género humano. Si quieres escapar de la realidad o mirarla con otros ojos, léelo.

Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)

38 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Pantheon, 1987

"People who do not read Cortazar are doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease." P. Neruda
It has taken me years to sit down and finally make a serious commitment to read Julio Cortazar's "Hopscotch/La Rayuela." I cannot think of a better companion to devote a few weeks to, maybe even a bit longer - hey, whatever it takes! It depends on your reading speed and the time you take to savor the poetry of the author's language. So, be willing to make a small personal investment in this very ...

La autopista del sur y otros cuentos

12 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996

La Autopista de Cortázar
This is a book in spanish, so I'll write down the review in spanish. Cortázar es un escritor hábil que, como ya han notado muchos críticos, intenta describir la experiencia estética del artista a través de un lenguaje deliberadamente complejo que, quizá, logra captar ese mátiz particular que el artista descubre en la realidad. "Las babas de diablo" es un típico ejemplo de lo dicho ...

Blow-Up: And Other Stories

17 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Pantheon, 1985

A marvelous collection of short stories -- but what makes them so is not easy to explain
This book was my first experience with reading Cortazar. From the first story on, the excitement of encountering a new (to me) brilliant writer went through me like an electric shock. The book injected an excitement and alertness into what otherwise might have been a sluggish weekend. I have found, however, that explaining the basis of this excitement to others is not easy. It comes down to ...

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute

2 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Archipelago Books, 2007

Fantastic Voyage
There are explorations that take us to new worlds, and the explorers come back ready to tell us of all the strange people and artifacts they saw. There is also the exploration of a familiar world in a new way, and that this can be just as enlightening, and entertaining, is the message of _Autonauts of the Cosmoroute_ (Archipelago Books) by husband and wife Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop. ...

Cronopios and Famas

9 reviews
Julio Cortazar

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999

Makes me happy.
This is on my list of favorite books of all time; it is a great book not because it subtly describes the frivolties of life and not because it shows the persistence of human spirit, blah blah blah... It is a beautiful and great book because it makes you laugh - in its own great non funny way. It is not laughing out loud, of course, more like chuckling to yourself as you read it. You even get ...

Cuentos Completos 2, Cortazar (Complete Short Stories 2, Cortazar)

2 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Punto de Lectura, 2007

Todo Cortazar
Cuentos Completos 2 esta compuesto por todos los cuentos de la segunda parte de la vida de Cortazar. Lei Cuento Completos 1 en dos semanas para luego comprar Cuentos Completos 2 y volver al mundo magico de cortazar. Si ningun lugar a dudas, eso es lo que obtuve, Cuentos Completos 2 incluye "un tal Lucas" (mi preferido para esta parte) entre otros, todos excelentes. Una vez que uno entra en el ...

Cuentos completos, vol. 1 /Complete Short Stories, vol. 1 by Julio Cortazar

2 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Alfaguara, 2001

El mejor Cortázar
No soy fanático de Cortázar (aunque declaro haber leido todos sus libros en mi adolescencia, salvo Imagen de John Keats y El Examen); creo que su estatura es exagerada y que hay otros escritores que han quedado injustamente en la sombra (increíblemente, Onetti sigue siendo un autor recordado a medias --Onetti es el arquetipo del famoso Morelli de "Rayuela"--, además de uno de los más grandes ...

Save Twilight: Selected Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)

6 reviews
Julio Cortzar

City Lights Publishers, 2001

It'll leave you wondering...
... if you're dreaming, if you're breathing air or poetry. This book will make you want to write, it'll make you want to read it again and again, it'll sometimes leave you speechless and breathless, and some other times eager to go and tell others to read it. I must have read it as a whole at least eight times and some poems must've entered through my eyes at least 30 times. And I always ...

Final Exam (New Directions Paperbook)

3 reviews
Julio Cortazar

New Directions, 2008

Foggy notions
Final exam is a hazy book . What the eyes of Andres Favas shows us is not only a foggy Buenos Aires but a journey into the labyrinths of the late 50's intelectuality. Where does it take him? nowhere of course... inertia is the result of extenuating thinking , so Andre and his friends talk , read , define and redifine life but go nowhere while a surreal city burns. Cortazar always enjoyed ...

Los Mejores Relatos Fantasticos De Habla Hispana/the Best Fantastic Stories from the Spanish Language: Los ...

1 review
Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, ...

Alfaguara, 2001

Una muestra de relatos fantásticos
Una selección interesante de relatos, pero no exactamente los mejores, aunque haya maestros innegables como Borges, Cortázar o Rulfo.

Los Mejores Relatos Latinoamericanos/the Best Latin America Stories (Juvenil Alfaguara)

1 review
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Adolfo Bioy Casares, ...

Alfaguara, 1999

Cien anos de soledad (en espanol).
This is the most fascinating book one has ever read before. This book tells us about the only thing, which is interesting for a human being - solitute. Tne iternal solitute. The auther explains that all man's efforts to imporove his own nature a re in vain, if you do not comprehend the nature of his own solitude. This book brough me the enourmous sadness. This should be so. Also, I'd like to ...

Casa Tomada Y Otros Cuentos (Serie Roja)
Julio Cortazar

Santillana USA Publishing Company, 2005

With an introduction by Luisa Valenzuela, this carefully selected anthology not only comprises Julio Cortazar?s best short stories but also contains a study of the author?s work by Anibal Jarkowski. Included in the book are Casa tomada, Continuidad de los parques, La noche boca arriba, Las armas secretas, Instrucciones para llorar, Simulacros, Conducta en los velorios and El otro cielo among others. Description in Spanish: Esta cuidada ...

All Fires the Fire

3 reviews
Julio Cortazar

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2005

Eight stories, eight new ways of seeing
My favorite Cortazar short story is "The Southern Thruway" with its hilariously dry epigraph: Sweltering motorists do not seem to have a history...As a reality a traffic jam is impressive, but it doesn't say much.-Arrigo Benedetti, L'Espresso, Rome, 6.21.64 Cortazar reminds me of Kafka and Nabokov, Calvino and of course Borges, but also of an author who came after him Antonio Tabucchi who also ...

62/modelo para armar
Julio Cortazar

Punto de Lectura, 2004

Julio Cortazar's classic 1968 novel about an unnamed European "city" is a brilliant and intricate blueprint for life in the so-called "City." As Juan, one of the main characters puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in Oslo. This cityscape is the meeting place for a wild assortment of bohemians. Description ...

The Winners (New York Review Books Classics)

6 reviews
Julio Cortazar

NYRB Classics, 1999

Ducks and Eagles
Cortazar places his characters in categories I've found people all fit--one or the other--like it or not--we are each either a duck or an eagle. Ducks follow of course and eagles set new paths. Ducks may have easier less lonely lives. Unless of course they inherit wealth and power--in which case they must be very confused and inflict chaos on the less entitled. Eagles succeed in endeavors ...

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