Blow-Up and Other Stories – Julio Cortazar
Blow-Up: And Other Stories by Julio Cortazar / ISBN 9780394728810 / Translated by Paul Blackburn / paperback from Pantheon / cover by Peter Mendelsund
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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 intended victim… In the fifteen stories collected here–including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name–Cortázar explores the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.
