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The Selected Stories of Julio Cortazar

By: Julio Cortazar

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Paperback | 15 August 2025

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368 Pages

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A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.

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 Barry

A grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills over into brutality. A lodger's inability to stop vomiting bunny rabbits inspires a personal confession.

As dream melds into reality, and reality melts into nightmare, one constant remains throughout these thirty-five stories- the singular brilliance of Julio Cortazar's imagination.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN BARRY

'Anyone who doesn't read Cortazar is doomed' Pablo Neruda

Industry Reviews

A fecund mixture of surrealism, symbolism, nouveau roman experimentation and Borgesian fantasy, Cortazar enthusiastically seeds his realistic settings - for the most part split between Buenos Aires and Paris - with impossible invasions of the fantastical and supernatural. The effect is often a refined philosophical take on the "uncanny tales" strand of speculative fiction * Guardian *
Cortazar is one of the most distinctive voices in Latin American literature * Newsday *
Original...circuitous and powerful... Cortazar's method is to keep tight control over a world in which, just below the surface of charming, sophisticated social life, lies the unfaceable and unmentionable * Financial Times *
Cortazar can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night * Time *
A first-class literary imagination at work * The New York Times Book Review *

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