Blow-Up: And Other Stories [Paperback]

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer’s intended victim . . .

Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories,the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni’s film of the same name—shows Julio Cortázar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.ONE
Axolotl  3
House Taken Over  10 
The Idol of the Cyclades  28
Letter to a Young Lady in Paris  39 
A Yellow Flower  51

TWO
Continuity of Parks  63
The Night Face Up  66
Bestiary  77
The Gates of Heaven  97 
Blow-Up  114

THREE
End of the Game  135 
At Your Service  150 
The Pursuer  182
Secret Weapons  248Praise forBlow-Up and Other Stories:

[Cortázar] is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night.
—Time

Julio Cortázar is a stunning writer. It is difficult to imagine how he could improve as a writer of short stories.
—The Christian Science Monitor

A glittering showcase for a daring talent . . . Julio Cortázar is a dazzler.
—San Francisco Chronicle

A first-class literary imagination at work.
—The New York Times Book Review

Cortázar displays throughout his stories the ability to elevate them above the condition of those gimmicky tales which depend for effect solely on a twist ending. His genius here lies in the knack for constructing striking, artistically 'right' subordinate circumstances out of wlÃ)