Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Fülszöveg

Around the Day in
Eighty Worlds
By Julio Cortázar
Translated by Thomas Christensen
In this previously untranslated collection of short writings accompanied by illustrations chosen by the author, noted Argentine writer Julio Cortázar leads us on a tour of his favorite worlds. Cortázar enthusiasts will find here fantastic stories bearing the author's distinctive stamp, but they will also discover such lesser-known lands as whimsical vignettes, poems, and the first substantial selection in English of the author's insightful and provocative essays.
We roam through essays on writers and writing, art and jazz, a cat named Theodor W. Adorno, decadence in the French Riviera, nights in Europe's ministries, and life in Paris and Provence, on feeling not all there and on being an idiot, on the mind and matter and memory, and more.
We meet a man slowly sinking into the ground, a new Napoleon who appears in contemporary Paris, a hand named Dg, an invisible monster, an upside-down fly, a... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Around the Day in
Eighty Worlds
By Julio Cortázar
Translated by Thomas Christensen
In this previously untranslated collection of short writings accompanied by illustrations chosen by the author, noted Argentine writer Julio Cortázar leads us on a tour of his favorite worlds. Cortázar enthusiasts will find here fantastic stories bearing the author's distinctive stamp, but they will also discover such lesser-known lands as whimsical vignettes, poems, and the first substantial selection in English of the author's insightful and provocative essays.
We roam through essays on writers and writing, art and jazz, a cat named Theodor W. Adorno, decadence in the French Riviera, nights in Europe's ministries, and life in Paris and Provence, on feeling not all there and on being an idiot, on the mind and matter and memory, and more.
We meet a man slowly sinking into the ground, a new Napoleon who appears in contemporary Paris, a hand named Dg, an invisible monster, an upside-down fly, a woman who can't abide yawning, miniature jaguars, girls experiencing first sexual awakenings, and a man who craves ants, among other figures from Cortázar's fabulous worlds.
Whether recalling his own experiences in Argentina, Paris, or Provence, or writing on the work of Poe, Duchamp, or Louis Armstrong, or inventing fantastic fictions, Julio Cortázar opens our eyes to other universes, casting off convention to reveal startling unseen connections and unexpected correspondences.
ISBN:0-86547-203-3 Vissza