商品簡介
In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS.
With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-story collection Blow-Up--Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of an Argentinean writer living in Paris with his lover and a circle of bohemian friends, and consists of 155 short chapters that the author advises us to read out of order. Blow-Up brings together the finest and most famous of Cortazar's short fiction--stories where invisible beasts stalk children in their homes, where a man reading a mystery finds out that he is the murderer's intended victim. In Cortazar's work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative all fall away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.
作者簡介
JULIO CORTAZAR (1914-1984) was an Argentine novelist and short story writer. Born in Belgium, he spent most of his childhood in Buenos Aires, and moved to France as an adult. Cortazar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.
ILAN STAVANS teaches at Amherst College. Author of The Hispanic Condition and Spanglish, he is editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays, and The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories. Born in Mexico, he was the host of a PBS television program from 2001 to 2006 called Conversations with Ilan Stavans, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature Prize, and Chile's Presidential Medal.