Blow-Up: And Other Stories
A Pantheon or Vintage paperback of Julio Cortázar's stories, the collection that includes 'Blow-Up' and other fictions where the familiar slips sideways without warning. Cortázar writes about tigers in country houses, murderers reading their own fates, and the moment when ordinary logic admits it has been outclassed. The translation by Paul Blackburn keeps the prose cool and the disorientation precise. The cover is usually the spare, mid-century design that signals Latin American fiction before the boom had a name. The book is short enough to finish in an evening and strange enough to require the next morning. Ideal reader: the reader who prefers fiction that unsettles rather than resolves, or the filmgoer who wants to know what Antonioni started with.
