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...BANNED by the Argentine government in 1973. But it's hard to see why. For a novel about a group of expatriot Latin Americans in Paris ("The Screwery") who do little but eat, discuss metaphysics and screw, Julio Cortazar's A Manual for Manuel is far from politically threatening. Self-indulgent maybe, but not subversive...
...FIRES THE FIRE by JULIO CORTAZAR 152 pages. Pantheon...
...deal in illusion but not be dismissed as an illusionist is the nearly unsolvable problem of a writer like Julio Cortazar. For him the short story is the perfect form - a fine dazzle, then a quick curtain and nothing left but spots on the retina. But an entire collection of Cortazar's glittering tricky fiction invites the reader's eye to outguess the magician's hand. The mood that results is a profitless mixture of admiration and something not unlike contempt...
...special quality of Cortazar's subtle nuttiness deserves much patience...
...employer. The fraud continues for a year or so, until the mother dies. Three or four days later the last of the forged letters from "Alejandro" arrives for his mother. One of Alejandro's sisters opens it, and finds herself in tears. "She had been thinking," Cortazar writes bemusedly, "about how she was going to break the news to Alejandro that Mama was dead...