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Blow-Up: And Other Stories
by Julio Cortazar

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Author: Julio Cortazar
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1985-02-12
ISBN: 0394728815
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Pantheon

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Book Review: A fertile imagination at work.
Summary: 4 Stars



`` A short story can be taken in at a single glance while a work of three hundred pages depends on padding, on pages that are mere nexuses between one part and another. On the other hand, it is possible for everything to appear essential in a short story.''
- Jorge Luis Borges.

Besides being considered among the great modern Latin American authors, Cortazar is also a poet, translator and an amateur jazz musician. This collection of short stories provides us a glimpse of his fertile imagination.

In one story the protagonist's mind gets trapped into a fish's body, much like Kafka's `Metamorphosis'. In `Blow-up', a photograph assumes real life proportions, reminiscent of Poe's fantastic works. The `Letter to a Young Lady in Paris' conveys the perplexity of a young woman who vomits up rabbits. `Continuity of Parks' is a Borgesian tale where the protagonist becomes part of the murder mystery he is reading.

`` In literature it is only necessary to outline the steps. Let the people dance.'' says Anthony Kerrigan in preface to `Ficciones'. This collection is one such piece of literature. His other important work is `Hopscotch'. Along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie, he can claim to be the author of some of the best pieces of magic realism.

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