All Fires the Fire
Julio Cortázar
(Author)
Suzanne Jill Levine
(Author)
Description
A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch and the short story "Blow-Up" ) creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where lives intersect for brief moments and situations break and refract. All Fires the Fire contains some of Julio Cortázar's most beloved stories. It is a classic collection by "one of the world's great writers" (Washington Post).Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
April 28, 2020
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.2 X 8.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811229456
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About the Author
Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer, was born in Brussels, and moved permanently to France in 1951. Cortazar is now recognized as one of the century's major experimental writers, reflecting the influence of French surrealism, psychoanalysis, and his love of both photography and jazz, along with his strong commitment to revolutionary Latin American politics.
Suzanne Jill Levine is an acclaimed translator of Latin American literature. She is the author of Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction. Her editions include the Penguin Paperback Classics series of Jorge Luis Borges's essays and poetry.
Reviews
The noted Argentinian author's incomparable elegance shines through these eight stories.
He was, perhaps without trying, the Argentine who made the whole world love him.--Gabriel García Márquez
Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed.--Pablo Neruda
I'm permanently indebted to the work of Cortázar.--Roberto Bolaño
"In this playful and scintillating set of fabulist tales by Argentine master Cortázar, characters are shuffled through shifting realities. Cortázar fans will devour these affecting stories." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
He was, perhaps without trying, the Argentine who made the whole world love him.--Gabriel García Márquez
Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed.--Pablo Neruda
I'm permanently indebted to the work of Cortázar.--Roberto Bolaño
"In this playful and scintillating set of fabulist tales by Argentine master Cortázar, characters are shuffled through shifting realities. Cortázar fans will devour these affecting stories." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
