Julio Cortázar Livres

Quatre nouvelles. Quatre histoires captivantes qui plongent le lecteur dans des univers riches et dépaysants. À Tolède, un drame va bouleverser la vie d'une jeune femme. À Paris, un traducteur arpente les rues de la Ville Lumière muni de son appareil photo dans l'espoir de réaliser un cliché extraordinaire. À Chicago, une octogénaire acariâtre embauche avec réticence une femme de ménage mexicaine. Sur une plage des îles Baléares, un homme épie un couple magnétique et tente de percer le mystère qui l'entoure. Ce recueil est une invitation à découvrir la plume de quatre auteurs emblématiques de la littérature espagnole et sud-américaine, dévoilant ainsi toute la richesse de leur langue. L'ouvrage se compose de "La force du sang" de Miguel de Cervantes, "Les fils de la vierge" de Julio Cortázar, "Les amies" de Carlos Fuentes et "Tandis qu'elles dorment" de Javier Marías.

«Les porteurs de torches marchaient les premiers, éclairant vaguement le passage aux murs humides et à la voûte si basse que les servants du prêtre devaient courber la tête. On l'emmenait maintenant, on l'emmenait, c'était la fin. Face contre ciel, à un mètre du plafond taillé à même le roc, et qui s'illuminait par instants d'un reflet de torche. Quand, à la place du plafond, surgiraient les étoiles et se dresserait devant lui le grand escalier incendié de cris et de danses, ce serait la fin.»

The Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, called by Carlos Fuentes the Simon Bolivar of the Latin American novel, was one of the scintillating geniuses of twentieth-century literature—a writer of sly wit and immense sophistication with a keen eye for character and the workings of social life. The Winners is the story of a luxury cruise, bound for an unknown destination, which runs terribly amok. Funny, frightening, lyrical, and humane, it is a deeply satisfying philosophical novel about crossed lives and wayward love, as well as a brilliant meditation on the myth of the New World.

Julio Cortazar's collection features a blend of the ordinary and the mysterious, showcasing tales that delve into unsettling themes. A young girl's summer at a country house with a roaming tiger and a man's grim realization of his fate as a murder victim highlight the collection's unique narratives. Among these stories is "Blow-Up," which inspired a film by Antonioni. Cortazar's masterful storytelling invites readers to navigate the thin line between reality and the uncanny, making this a celebrated work in the realm of short fiction.

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 young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim . . . In the fifteen stories collected here—including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name—Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.Axolotl House taken over Distances Idol of the Cyclades Letter to a young lady in Paris Yellow flower Continuity of parks Night face up Bestiary Gates of heaven Blow-up End of the game At your service Pursuer Secret weapons.

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.