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Blow-Up : And Other Stories
(Paperback)-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 victim...In the stories collected here -- including "Blow-Up;' on which Antonioni based his film -- Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form.
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August 21 2010
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Pros & Cons :the film was about a fashion photographer in london who gets into some complications over a private photo that he shoots in a park and then blows up in his studio.
Axolotls, bunnies, and other exotic creatures
...I expected to look at Cortazar's story in the same way, but was `disappointed': Blow Up is the 11th of 15 stories in this book, and it is the first one that made me sit up and say, hey, this is a ... read more
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December 25 2009
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Pros & Cons :this basically reads like the translator, paul blackburn, was being paid by the page and cared nothing for the text that he was translating.
Great writer; artless, awful translation
...This basically reads like the translator, Paul Blackburn, was being paid by the page and cared nothing for the text that he was translating. This is not unlikely; the translation dates from 1967, ... read more
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April 6 2007
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Pros & Cons :in cortazar's fictions, reality and fantasy are separated by a permeable membrane and the proper way to read his writing is to experience it, to exercise to the fullest extent possible one's sense of empathy with the writing, in a sense, to merge with it.
...Cortazar's stories seem to exist in kind of quantum superposition states where both one and the other are simultaneously being realized -- this is literature at the Planck scale. Probably no other ... read more
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November 5 2006
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Pros & Cons :..but of course in cortazar's descriptions it's something much more deeply felt and true than those words allow for.
...The other reviews here cover Cortazazr's work and talent so well that I'm only going to add something about one of the stories. If you're a fan of his novel Rayuela, or Hopscotch in English, the ... read more
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September 17 2006
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Pros & Cons :i would add another comparison as well - though the intent is quite different, the very musical and rhythmic sensuality of the writing also recalls the best of ferlinghetti - cortazar is confident enough in his expertise to be willing to play with language in a similar fashion, and creates extraordinary and unforgettable worlds throught this (and other) collections.
...Cortazar is confident enough in his expertise to be willing to play with language in a similar fashion, and creates extraordinary and unforgettable worlds throught this (and other) collections. T ... read more
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September 17 2006
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Pros & Cons :i would add another comparison as well - though the intent is quite different, the very musical and restless, rhythmic sensuality of the writing also recalls the best of lawrence ferlinghetti - both were fluent in and inspired by jazz culture, and cortazar is confident enough in his expertise to be willing to explore and shape language with an engaged, fluent playfulness.
...This gave him a rare ability to create extraordinary and unforgettable worlds throught this (and other) collections. This anthology is a great introduction to Cortazar, with many of my personal f ... read more
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September 17 2006
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Pros & Cons :i would add another comparison as well - though the intent is quite different, the very musical and restless, rhythmic sensuality of the writing also recalls the best of lawrence ferlinghetti - both were fluent in and inspired by jazz culture, and cortazar is confident enough in his expertise to be willing to explore and shape language with an engaged, fluent playfulness.
A fantastic intro to Cortazar
...This gave him a rare ability to create extraordinary and unforgettable worlds throught this (and other) collections.This anthology is a great introduction to Cortazar, with many of my personal fav ... read more
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July 22 2006
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Pros & Cons :but in case it's helpful to you, cortazar's precise prose reminded me a bit of nabokov, his sense of wonder and magic recalled steven millhauser, and his trafficking in paradoxes a bit like borges.
...From the general to the specific: This is a collection of short stories, most of which contain an element of the fantastic. Some of the flashes of recognition that I mention above are recognitio ... read more
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July 22 2006
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Pros & Cons :but in case it's helpful to you, cortazar's precise prose reminded me a bit of nabokov, his sense of wonder and magic recalled steven millhauser, and his trafficking in paradoxes a bit like borges.
...She flicks at it, it curls into a ball, and she easily washes it down with running water. This is classic Cortazar; with a few well-chosen sentences, he puts you in that world: a world where the ... read more
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October 6 2005
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Pros & Cons :and one of this book's merits is that it makes cortazar and his stories more widely known.
...As far as this goes, then, this translation fills a huge gap; and one of this book's merits is that it makes Cortazar and his stories more widely known. The translation itself, however, is subpar. ... read more
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Product Specs for Blow-Up : And Other Stories
| Author: | Julio Cortazar |
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| Number Of Pages: | 288 |
| Category: | Paperback |
| Brand: | Pantheon |
| Dewey Decimal Number: | 863 |
| Label: | Pantheon |
| Manufacturer: | Pantheon |
| Product Group: | Book |
| Publication Date: | 1985-02-12 |
| Release Date: | 1985-02-12 |
| Edition: | 1st Pantheon Pbk. Ed |
| Part Number: | 0394728815 |
| ASIN: | 0394728815 |
| ISBN: | 0394728815 |
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