Julio Cortázar
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English
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"One of the most adventurous and rewarding collections since the publication of Cortázar's own Blow-up." —Los Angeles Times
A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch...Author
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Pocket poets volume no. 53
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xvii, 257 pages ; 16 cm.
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English
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"World renowned as one of the masters of contemporary fiction, Julio Cortazar was also a prolific poet, who in his final months in Paris, ill with leukemia, assembled what he wanted saved of his life's work in verse. This expanded edition of Save Twilight, offers a bilingual survey of Cortazar's enduring poetry ranging through his various voices, moods, and styles"--
11) Discurso del oso
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Español
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Un oso que habita las tuberías de un edificio va descubriendo la extraña y solitaria vida de los seres humanos.
A bear that inhabits the pipes of a building is discovering the strange and lonely life of human beings.
13) Julio Cortázar
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1 videodisc (28 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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Cortazár's preoccupation with 20th century life and his rejection of its values is placed in historical context and examined as a theme in his works, in particular his masterpiece Rayuela. Archival material and interviews with contemporaries bring to life the times that shaped Cortazár's oeuvre and ensured its enduring legacy.
14) Cuentos macabros
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212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Español
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An illustrated collection of horror tales by Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Black Cat."
15) The Seven Madmen
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xvii, 249 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortazar ("If there's one person in my country I feel close to, it's Roberto Arlt"), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the crowded, confusing streets of Buenos Aires, thronging with immigrants...
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Este es otro volumen de la exitosa Colección Mejores Cuentos, una selección de obras maestras de autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temáticas muy variadas, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y posiblemente la más importante: brindar placer al lector. En este libro electrónico, tendrás acceso a los Mejores Cuentos Extranjeros, una selección de cuentos memorables escritos por grandes maestros del cuento de la literatura internacional,...