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First edition
London, The Harville Press, 1998
Softcover, 340 p.

Selection and introduction by Alberto Manguel
12 stories translated by Alberto Manguel

  
   
 

Selected stories written by Julio Cortázar
Including many stories never previously published in English, this collection gathers together Julio Cortázar’s finest tales, beautifully constructed fables exploring a surreal, extraordinary world through everyday moments where innocent characters led by fate or chance attempt to make sense out of what is essentially senseless, random reality.
 
 
  Introduction
  House Taken Over
  Letter to a Young Lady in Paris
  Omnibus
  Circe
  The Gates of Heaven
  Bestiary
  At Your Service
  Blow-up
  The Secret Weapons
  Continuity Of Parks
  Don't You Blame Anyone
  Poisons
  The Maenades
  The Idol of the Cyclades
  A Yellow Flower
  In the Afternoon
  After-Dinner Conversation
  Axolotl
  The Night Face Up
  End of the Garne
  The Southern Thruway
  Instructions for John Howell
  All Fires fhe Fire
  The Other Heaven
  Summer
  A Place Named Kindberg
  Throat of a Black Kitten
  Apocalypse at Solentiname
  The Faces of the Medal
  Press Clippings
  Second Time Round
  A Leg of the Journey
  Tara
  The School at Night Nightmares
 
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