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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good in None jacket. Hardcover; no dust jacket. Spine lettering clear and bright. First American Edition. Stated first printing (no later printings indicated). Clean and tight. No markings. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.
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Near Fine. First American Edition. Close to near fine in a Vg. + dj. (Purple top edge somewhat faded with a trace of light foxing. Barely discernable erasure at base of front pastedown. Faint sticker ghost at crest of front end paper. Crease on rear dj. flap. Spine on dj. discolored) Title story was the basis for Antonioni's cult film "Blow-Up." (O)
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First English edition. Translated from the Spanish by Paul Blackburn. Octavo. 277pp. Preliminary and terminal leaves with just a bit of light foxing else fine in lightly worn, very near fine dust jacket with just a hint of sun on the spine. Includes the story "Blow-Up, " basis for Antonioni's celebrated 1966 mystery thriller.
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Fine. First American Edition. Close to fine in a like dj. (Hint of rubbing to bottom edge of boards at tips. Couple of 1/4"-inch closed tears in dj. Orange hue on spine of dj. mildly discolored) The story "Blow-up" served as the basis for Antonioni's celebrated film. (O)
In End of the Game, Julio Cortazar may be Jorge Luis Borges' true heir. There are fantastic tales in which Borges' own themes--the double, the labyrinth, the metamorphoses of men into beasts--are presented in a dreamlike, surrealistic style.
While Cortazar's reputation rests on experimental novels such as Hopscotch and 62. A Model Kit, it could be that he did his best work in the short form. The most famous is the one that inspired Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Blow-up." A later story, "The Southern Thruway," is the unacknowledged source for the endless traffic jam in Jean-Luc Godard's "Weekend."
The title story is a deeply affecting coming-of-age tale about three girls' wish to be enshrined in beauty and the end of adolescence. "The Night Face Up" merges modernity and the pre-Columbian world to mind-altering effect. "Axolotl" focuses upon the imagined marine creatures of the title.
What Cortazar brings to the short story is the sophistication and worldliness of the expatriate (during the dictatorship of Juan Peron in Argentina, he left his homeland for good). Carlos Fuentes called Cortazar the Simon Bolivar of Latin American narrative in that he had freed it of cant and provincialism.
