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 stories collected here -- including "Blow-Up;' on which Antonioni based his film -- Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form.
language: English
title: Blow-Up, and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Blow-Up, and Other Stories
genres: Magical Realism, Classics, Latin American Literature, Short Stories, Latin American, Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 7186
publisher: Collier