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| blow up julio cortazar: Blow-Up Julio Cortázar, 2014-08-05 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. |
| blow up julio cortazar: All Fires the Fire Julio Cortázar, Suzanne Jill Levine, 2020-04-28 “One of the most adventurous and rewarding collections since the publication of Cortázar’s own Blow-up.” —Los Angeles Times 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). |
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| blow up julio cortazar: Autonauts of the Cosmoroute Julio Cortázar, Carol Dunlop, 2007-11-26 A life-altering road trip with one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. |
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| blow up julio cortazar: Unreasonable Hours Julio Cortázar, 1995 A collection of eight stories never before published in English which combine--as all of Cortazar's stories do--realism with the fantastic, and display Cortazar's mastery at describing the ordinary moment. These stories show the heroism required when ordinary people struggle with the impossible. |
| blow up julio cortazar: The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin, 1999 Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations. |
| blow up julio cortazar: A Change of Light Julio Cortázar, 1984 |
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| blow up julio cortazar: Letters from Mom Julio Cortázar, 2022-01-25 Luis and Laura, an Argentine couple looking for a new beginning, settle in France, connected to their former home only through occasional letters from Luis's mother in Buenos Aires. But when a name from the past appears in an otherwise unremarkable letter, it comes with a dark shadow. What emerges is a psychological study of grief swirling with guilt, equal parts love-triangle and ghost story. Letters from Mom is one of Julio Cortázar's most beloved short stories, part of the same collection (Las armas secretas) that gave us Blow-up and At Your Service. It is translated here into English for the first time. |
| blow up julio cortazar: A Certain Lucas Julio. Cortázar, 2025-10-07 A classic Julio Cortázar novel, long out of print in a new edition, this is an amazing rediscovery: Short takes of whimsy and surrealism, the tidbits here are like diamond chips (Kirkus Reviews) |
| blow up julio cortazar: Writing at Risk Jason Weiss, 1991 |
| blow up julio cortazar: Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 Julio Cortázar, 2017 A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar |
| blow up julio cortazar: Altogether Elsewhere Marc Robinson, 1996-03-01 |
| blow up julio cortazar: 62: a Model Kit Julio. Cortázar, 2025-08-14 'A deeply touching, enjoyable novel, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious and intricate in its designs' New York Times In a city that could be Paris, London or Vienna, a loose-knit group of travellers, artists, and dreamers gather - drawn together by a cryptic passage from a book. Among them are the exiled writer Juan, the elusive Hélène, and the troubled Celia, each slipping between reality and illusion as their lives intertwine. Conversations turn into riddles, encounters take on the weight of fate, and a dark undercurrent of violence pulses beneath it all. Both playful and disorienting, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortázar's most enigmatic puzzle - an intricate, hypnotic novel that challenges the very nature of storytelling. |
| blow up julio cortazar: Talking to the Dead Sylvia Watanabe, 2010-12-29 By an 0. Henry Award-winning young writer, these interrelated stories paint a moving, many-faceted portrait of a Hawaiian village, where ancient traditions and modern values meet in a magical mix of the marvelous and the real. |
| blow up julio cortazar: That Bowling Alley on the Tiber Michelangelo Antonioni, 1986 Gathers thirty-three story ideas for films by the Italian director noted for his use of silence, omission, and suggestion |
| blow up julio cortazar: The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, 1997-09-25 When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous Boom of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and spectacular appearance itself seemed magical. In fact, Latin American literature has a long and rich tradition that reaches back to the Colonial period and is filled with remarkable writers too little known in the English-speaking world. The short story has been a central part of this tradition, from Fray Bartolome de las Casas' narrative protests against the Spanish Conquistadors' abuses of Indians, to the world renowned Ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges, to the contemporary works of such masters as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rosario Ferre, and others. Now, in The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories, editor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria brings together fifty-three stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. In his fascinating introduction, Gonzalez Echevarria traces the evolution of the short story in Latin American literature, explaining why the genre has flourished there with such brilliance, and illuminating the various cultural and literary tensions that resolve themselves in magical realism. The stories themselves exhibit all the inventiveness, the luxuriousness of language, the wild metaphoric leaps and uncanny conjunctions of the ordinary with the fantastic that have given the Latin American short story its distinctive and unforgettable flavor: From the Joycean subtlety of Machado de Assis's Midnight Mass, to the brutal parable of Julio Ramon Ribeyro's Featherless Buzzards, to the startling disorientation of Alejo Carpentier's Journey Back to the Source, (which is told backwards, because a sorcerer has waved his wand and made time flow in reverse), to the haunting reveries of Maria Luisa Bombal's The Tree. Readers familiar with only the most popular Latin American writers will be delighted to discover many exciting new voices here, including Catalina de Erauso, Ricardo Palma, Rubin Dario, Augusto Roa Bastos, Christina Peri Rossi, along with Borges, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Cortazar, Vargas Llosa, and many others. Gonzalez Echevarria also provides brief and extremely helpful headnotes for the each selection, discussing the author's influences, major works, and central themes. Short story lovers will find a wealth of satisfactions here, in terrains both familiar and uncharted. But the unique strength of The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories is that it allows us to see the connections between writers from Peru to Puerto Rico and from the sixteenth century to the present--and thus to view in a single, unprecedented volume one of the most diverse and fertile literary landscapes in the world. |
| blow up julio cortazar: A Manual for Manuel Julio. Cortázar, 2025-08-14 In 1970s Paris, a group of revolutionaries plot the daring kidnapping of a powerful Latin American official. But among them is Andrés, a man adrift in a world of high-stakes politics. As Andrés spirals into a crisis of identity, Cortázar intersects the group's story with real-life documents, newspaper clippings, and personal reflections to construct a compelling mosaic that explores the complexities of revolution, commitment, and the human spirit. |
| blow up julio cortazar: Julio Cortázar Carlos J. Alonso, 1998-06-13 A 1998 collection of essays on the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. |
| blow up julio cortazar: The Pacific and Other Stories Mark Helprin, 2005-06-28 A dazzling collection of short stories by Mark Helprin, bestselling author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly The Pacific and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft prose that have come to be Mark Helprin's signature. A British paratrooper jumps into occupied territory; the 1958 New York Yankees gain an unexpected teammate in a puny, teenaged Hasidic Jew; a September 11th widow receives an astonishing gift from the contractor working on her new apartment—these and other stories exhibit the constantly changing variety of the ocean itself, the peaks and troughs of life. Lighthearted, glittering fables are met with starker tales that sound the depths of sacrifice and duty. The Pacific and Other Stories is a resplendent, powerful collection of lasting substance and emotional import. |
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| blow up julio cortazar: Chaos Bound N. Katherine Hayles, 2018-03-15 No detailed description available for Chaos Bound. |
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| blow up julio cortazar: Selected Stories Adolfo Bioy Casares, 1994 Fifteen stories by an Argentinian writer mixing the fantastic with the real. The subjects range from love to madness. |
| blow up julio cortazar: Mexico and the Spanish Conquest Ross Hassig, 2014-08-04 What role did indigenous peoples play in the Spanish conquest of Mexico? Ross Hassig explores this question in Mexico and the Spanish Conquest by incorporating primary accounts from the Indians of Mexico and revisiting the events of the conquest against the backdrop of the Aztec empire, the culture and politics of Mesoamerica, and the military dynamics of both sides. He analyzes the weapons, tactics, and strategies employed by both the Indians and the Spaniards, and concludes that the conquest was less a Spanish victory than it was a victory of Indians over other Indians, which the Spaniards were able to exploit to their own advantage. In this second edition of his classic work, Hassig incorporates new research in the same concise manner that made the original edition so popular and provides further explanations of the actions and motivations of Cortés, Moteuczoma, and other key figures. He also explores their impact on larger events and examines in greater detail Spanish military tactics and strategies. |
| blow up julio cortazar: Antonioni, Or, The Surface of the World Seymour Chatman, 1985-11-03 Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the great visual artists of the cinema. The central and distinguishing strength of Antonioni's mature films, Seymour Chatman argues, is narration by a kind of visual minimalism, by an intense concentration on the sheer appearance of things and a rejection of explanatory dialogue. Though traditional audiences have balked at the opacity of Antonioni's films, it is precisely their rendered surface that is so eloquent once one learns to read it. Not despite, but through, their silences the films show a deep concern with the motives, perceptions and vicissitudes of the emotional life. This study covers films not dealt with in any other book on the great director, including Il mistero di Obertwald (1980) and Identificazione di una donna (1982), which have not yet been seen in the U.S. Its coverage of the early documentaries and features, when Antonioni was forging his new and original stylistic language, is especially full. In a free-ranging analysis of the evolution of Antonioni's style that quotes liberally from Antonioni's own highly articulate writings and interviews, Chatman shows how difficult it was for the filmmaker to liberate his art from the conventional means of rendering narrative, especially dialogue, conventional sound effects, and commentative music. From his first efforts to his triumphant achievements in the tetralogy of L'avventura, L'eclisse, and Il deserto rosso, Antonioni's acute sensibility struggled to achieve the mastery that has won him a secure place in film history. Chatman's study is the only complete account of Antonioni's work available in English. Its novel visual approach to the films while attract not only film scholars but also readers interested in painting and architecture—both important elements of Antonioni's work. |
| blow up julio cortazar: The Progress of Love Alice Munro, 2014-05-21 These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental, and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk. ‘Complete, complex, and brilliantly structured’ Daily Telegraph In fact, Munro's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life. Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches from the small-town and rural front lies a strong undertow of violence and sexuality, repressed until something snaps, with extraordinary force in some of the stories, sadly and strangely in others. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 |
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| blow up julio cortazar: Hopscotch Julio Cortazar, 2020-02-06 |
| blow up julio cortazar: Going Blind Jonathan Penner, 1977 |
| blow up julio cortazar: The Diary of Andrés Fava Julio Cortázar, 2005 Diary of Andrs Fava is all reflection: on his reading, his dreams, conversations and writing. This unpredictable journal is peppered with quotes from French poets and American jazzmen. Bemused and melancholy, erudite and searching, this irreverent gem is full of autobiographical winks at the reader and hints at themes and techniques Cortzar would continue to explore. |
| blow up julio cortazar: From the Observatory Julio Cortázar, 2011 Perhaps Cortaaazar's most unconventional work, From the Observatory moves from descriptions of the life cycle of the Atlantic eel to glimpses of the unearthly structures of an observatory built in Jaipur by an 18th-century Indian prince. This architectural wonder is not merely a place dedicated to astronomical observation but also a space that bears witness to the dreams of those who enter it. Cortaaazar's haunting photos of this enigmatic creation flow into other images--streets, oceans, night skies--which then flow into his verbal dance with a dream-logic all its own. Like fish unaware of why they are migrating, readers will be pulled into this fantastic current.--P. [2] of cover. |
| blow up julio cortazar: The Day of Creation: A Novel J. G. Ballard, 2012-05-21 As Dr. Mallory watches his clinic fail on the parched terrain of central Africa, he dreams of discovering a third Nile that will make the Sahara bloom. When there is a trickle on the local airstrip, and soon a river, the obsessed Mallory claims it as his own creation. Joined by Noon, a silent adolscent girl who as a child ran with the local guerrillas; Professor Sanger, a documentary filmmaker with a fading reputation; and Nora Warrer, the widow of a Rhodesian veterinary surgeon, the remains of whose menagerie flourish exotically amid the land's new fertility, Mallory sets out for the river's source.--Dust jacket. |
| blow up julio cortazar: A Journey Into the Mind of Watts Thomas Pynchon, 1973 |
| blow up julio cortazar: What Is Cinema? André Bazin, 2005 The first of two volumes, this book has been a classic of film studies for as long as it's been available and is considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. |
| blow up julio cortazar: That Old Country Music Kevin Barry, 2021-01-12 A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today—from the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier. With three novels and two short story collections published, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. All of his prodigious gifts of language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humor and the uncanny power of the primal and unchanging Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today. |
| blow up julio cortazar: Around the World with Great Authors Honors World Voices Students Saint Mary's School, 2010-04-17 This book is a collection of essays about authors from around the world. It is a collaborative effort from Vickie Posey's ninth grade Honors World Voices classes at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, North Carolina. In order to analyze and learn world voices and cultures, the classes researched authors, wrote about their lives and contributions, and discovered why these authors are so important. The purpose of this book is to share information with others so that they can become more familiar with these important world authors. |
| blow up julio cortazar: Scoundrels and Spitballers Philippe Garnier, 2020-04-16 Scoundrels & Spitballers is to be read more as a book about writers and Hollywood, rather than one about screenwriters in Hollywood. The author stresses the vibrancy and free-for-all giddiness of a period when the film industry was young, and its workers even younger. And, perhaps, along the way these tales might define the important and not-always-negative role Hollywood played in the literary life of the 1930s. Hollywood broke a few writers' souls, but it also helped many and definitely inspired a few. Writers profiled in Scoundrels & Spitballers include: Nathaniel West, John Sanford, Marguerite Roberts, Robert Tasker, John Bright, Rowland Brown, Sam Brown, Niven Busch, James M. Cain, A.I. Bezzerides, Horace McCoy, and W.R. Burnett. |
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Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime drama film produced and directed by Ted Demme, about an American cocaine kingpin and his international network. David McKenna and Nick …
Blow (2001) - IMDb
Blow: Directed by Ted Demme. With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Rachel Griffiths. The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo …
BLOW Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
Middle English, from Old English blāwan; akin to Old High German blāen to blow, Latin flare.
BLOW | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
(Definition of blow from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University …
BLOW definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you blow a chance or attempt to do something, you make a mistake which wastes the chance or causes the attempt to fail.
