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Julio Cortazar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of his life, and after that in Paris. His stories, written under the dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of nightmare. In later life Cortazar became a passionate advocate for human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships in Latin America. He died in 1984.
Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America * Times Literary Supplement * One of the great existentialist novels, worthy to stand alongside the efforts of Sartre and Camus * LA Review of Books * Marks the true possibility of encounter between the Latin-American imagination and the contemporary world Anyone who doesn't read Cortazar is doomed -- Pablo Neruda I'm permanently indebted to the work of Cortazar -- Roberto Bolano
