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Las Armas Secretas - Julio Cortázar
Las Armas Secretas
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3.75 10
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9789500702164 (9500702169)
Publisher: Sudamericana
Pages no: 167
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The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it
4.0 Five for one
I understand now why this one is classified as European lit all the time. I haven't researched it, but I'm pretty sure this one was written after Cortázar left Argentina, because the five stories in this volume are all set in Paris.I was not that dazzled by this too much at first but then, my bar wi...
To Read Is to Fly
To Read Is to Fly rated it
5.0
This volume is my introduction to Cortázar, part of my 2012 Year of Discovering Latin American and Spanish writers. I have his novels on my horizon, and I'm itching to read them, but I thought starting with a short story volume would be a good introduction. In the past, I have neglected short storie...
pseudolibrary
pseudolibrary rated it
5.0 Blow-Up and Other Stories
Cortazar goes meta and then he dives into nightmarish fantasy. From a rabbit-vomiter to girls playing at Statue; from Argentina to Paris, Cortazar manufactures fractures in normal human relations. Sacrifices are made on the altar of antiquity and on the basis of sisterhood. Classic.
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5.0 Blow-Up and Other Stories
The fantastic and the mundane combine in 'Blow-Up and Other Stories', often possessing the scorpion's sting in their tales. The best stories here make for a memorable collection. They have the quality of disturbing dreams, often with nightmare endings, the terrible realisation of the narrator in 'Th...
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