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 Antonio...

Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves 'the Club.' A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to h...

Long out of print and now reissued in paperback, Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortzar, perhaps the greatest of Latin American novelists (author of Hopscotch and The Blow-Up and Other Stories). 'The Instr...

One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. 'Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed.'—Pablo NerudaIn its characters, themes, and preoccupations, Final Exam prefigures Cortázar's later fictions, including Blow-Up and his maste...

Octavio Paz: "If you love art, do something, Fantomas!"Fantomas: "I will, you can depend on it."First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Co...