Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) was born in Brussels, grew up in Argentina, and lived for many years in Paris. His novels and stories include Hopscotch, Blow Up and Other Stories,and End of the Game.
From the Review
September 23, 1971: Imprisoned Spanish Writer (letter)
May 6, 1971: An Open Letter to Fidel Castro (letter)
From New York Review Books
| The Winners [Cortázar] creates a language and a rhythm and sensuality as mysterious and terrible as Melville's but all in his own voice.... The Winners is a novel of ideas that challenges and disturbs the reader and enlarges one's sense of the intricate |