Word: cortazar
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...GAME, by Julio Cortazar. Fifteen eerie stories, among them the brief vignette that ballooned into the movie Blow-Up. All of them deal with today's fashionable fictional hang-ups: Did it happen or didn't it? Is this a daydream or a nightmare...
...GAME, by Julio Cortazar. This Argentine author thinks only the unthinkable and imagines the weird and the baffling. These 15 stories, one of which was made into the movie Blow-Up, alternately amaze and appall the reader...
...business, ordered nightclubs to keep their lights bright at all times and outlawed kissing in public parks. It has banned such widely acclaimed films as the Czech-made Loves of a Blonde and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, based on a short story by Argentina's Julio Cortazar; it recently ordered a popular local television show discontinued because it showed too much of a bosomy blonde film star named Libertad Leblanc. One evening this month police stormed into the Buenos Aires Institute of Modern Art Theater just before curtain time, canceled a production of British Playwright Harold Pinter...
...these surreal situations are en countered in this collection of truly scary short stories by Argentina's Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch), who lives and works in Paris. One of the stories, Blow-Up, provided the plot for Antonioni's hit movie. Another describes the sordid death of a musician who strongly resembles the late Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Perhaps the most affecting of all is the title story, which explores the daydreams and posturings of three lonely sisters in an Argentine suburb...
However much Cortazar may remind readers of Poe, Maupassant, and Camus, his cool style and gothic viewpoint make him a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. What is it-a burglar, beast or spectral thing? If it occurs in a Cortazar story, it is likely to be something nameless and decidedly lethal...