num_pages: 277
description: 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 victim . . . In the fifteen stories collected here—including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name—Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.Axolotl House taken over Distances Idol of the Cyclades Letter to a young lady in Paris Yellow flower Continuity of parks Night face up Bestiary Gates of heaven Blow-up End of the game At your service Pursuer Secret weapons.
language: English
title: Blow-Up and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Blow-Up and Other Stories
genres: Spanish Literature, Short Stories, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 7184
publisher: Pantheon