Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

These three groundbreaking works by Julio Cortázar - a major figure of world literature and one of the founders of the Latin American Boom - are published together in one volume for the first time, in honor of the centenary of his birth.<br> <br>With his influential &quot;counternovel&quot; HOPSCOTCH and his unforgettable short stories, Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. HOPSCOTCH is a nonlinear novel about an Argentinean writer living in Paris; it consists of 155 short chapters that the author advises the reader to read out of order. BLOW-UP and WE LOVE GLENDA SO MUCH bring together the most famous of Cortázar's short fiction, including &quot;Axolotl,&quot; &quot;End of the Game,&quot; &quot;The Night Face Up,&quot; &quot;Continuity of Parks,&quot; &quot;Bestiary,&quot; and &quot;Blow-Up&quot;. These are stories in which invisible beasts stalk children in their homes, the reader of a mystery finds out that he is the murderer's intended victim, an injured motorcyclist is pursued by Aztec warriors, and a man becomes a salamander in a Parisian zoo. In Cortázar's work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative fall away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.<br><br>(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)