Julio Cortázar Books

The book features a series of eight classes by renowned Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These sessions blend personal reflections on his writing journey with insights into literature and the cultural context of his time. Cortázar discusses topics like the writer's path and the nature of the fantastic, offering an intimate glimpse into his creative process and thoughts. This collection serves as an essential resource for those studying Cortázar's work, providing a unique opportunity to engage with the author's ideas directly.

Cortazar's stories are like small time pieces, where each polished part moves relentlessly on its own particular path, exercising a crucial and perpetual influence on the mechanism as a whole. Moments jerk forward and retract, reflect and refract: an island at noon from an aeroplane - an aeroplane at noon from an island; the living deceiving the dying and also themselves, about death; fatality by fire in an ancient Roman arena and in a modern city apartment. It is a world that is constantly shifting, upsetting our balance and our peace of mind, a world outside of time that provokes a fascination bordering on terror. Cortazar is the master of the form and this celebrated collection houses some of his finest work.

A love story and an irreverent travelogue of elaborate tales and snapshots detailing Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop's thirty-three-day voyage on the Paris-Marseilles freeway in 1982.

Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time 'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds of potential meanings and intimations' Times Literary Supplement Dazed by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris, the sounds of jazz and the talk of literature, life and art echoing around him. But a chance encounter with a literary idol and his new work – a novel that can be read in random order – sends Horatio’s mind into further confusion. As a return to Buenos Aires beckons, Horatio’s friend and fellow artist, Traveler, awaits his arrival with dread –the lives of these two young writers now ready to play out in an inexhaustible game of indeterminacy.

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortazar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin BarryA grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion.

En este volumen el lector encontrará todas las colecciones de cuentos de Cortázar publicadas entre 1945 y 1966 y, como novedad, aquellos relatos aparecidos póstumamente en Papeles inesperados (2009) que, por título o fecha, pudieron pertenecer a ellas: La otra orilla, Bestiario, Las armas secretas, Final del juego, Historias de cronopios y de famas y Todos los fuegos el fuego conforman este primer volumen de los cuentos completos cortazarianos.

La entrada en religión de Teodoro W. Adorno, Ciclismo en Grignan, El viaje, Jardín para Octavio Paz, Diálogo de las formas, Empiezas con la magia , Naufragios, Ya no quedan esperanzas de, Una voce poco fa, Sobre la exterminación de los cocodrilos en Auvernia, Salvador Dalí, sin valor adalid, Siestas, De la grafología como ciencia aplicada, Datos para entender a los perqueos, Acerca de la situación del intelectual latinoamericano, A los malos entendedores.