With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio
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 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