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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.
