Books by Julio Cortazar

Portrait of Julio Cortazar

Julio Cortázar, the Argentine master of the fantastic and the everyday, reshaped twentieth‑century literature with his playful narratives and bold experiments in form. His writing blurs the boundary between dream and reality, inviting readers to participate in the act of creation through shifting perspectives, linguistic invention, and an unmistakable sense of wonder.

Whether exploring the surreal streets of Paris or the uncanny corners of Buenos Aires, Cortázar's stories reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary. His influence endures in contemporary fiction, inspiring readers and writers alike to question narrative convention and embrace the limitless possibilities of imagination.

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  • Rayuela / Hopscotch. Commemorative Edition

    R.A.E (Real Academia Espanola) Rayuela / Hopscotch. Commemorative Edition

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £24.37

  • Cuentos Completos 2 (1969-1982). Julio Cortazar /

    1 in stock

    £15.26

  • Bestiario / Bestiary

    Suma de Letras Bestiario / Bestiary

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £12.56

  • Final Exam

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Final Exam

    4 in stock

    Book SynopsisOne of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed.Pablo NerudaTrade Review"The stream-of-consciousness narrative helps to make this one of Cortázar's key works." -- Multicultural Review"Final Exam is an intriguing book for any reader with avant-garde sympathies, or for anyone who—like most who know him—loves Julio." -- San Francisco Chronicle"The publication of Final Exam is a literary event." -- The Seattle Times"[A] major undiscovered work...a novel about Buenos Aires which one night turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare." -- Harry Morales - Worldview"Cortázar spoke of something more than novelty or progress--he spoke of the radically new and joyful nature of every instant, of the body, the memory and the imagination of men and women." -- Carlos Fuentes"Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed." -- Pablo Neruda

    4 in stock

    £14.24

  • Final del juego / End of the Game

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Final del juego / End of the Game

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £13.25

  • Todos los fuegos el fuego / All Fires the Fire

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Todos los fuegos el fuego / All Fires the Fire

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £13.78

  • Rayuela Edicion conmemorativa 50 aniversario /

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Rayuela Edicion conmemorativa 50 aniversario /

    4 in stock

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    4 in stock

    £17.99

  • Historias de cronopios y de famas / Cronopios and

    2 in stock

    £12.56

  • Bestiary: The Selected Stories of Julio Cortázar

    Vintage Publishing Bestiary: The Selected Stories of Julio Cortázar

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisA collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.'Julio Cortázar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin BarryA grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills over into brutality. A lodger’s inability to stop vomiting bunny rabbits inspires a personal confession. As dream melds into reality, and reality melts into nightmare, one constant remains throughout these thirty-five stories: the singular brilliance of Julio Cortazar’s imagination.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN BARRY ‘Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed’ Pablo NerudaTrade ReviewA fecund mixture of surrealism, symbolism, nouveau roman experimentation and Borgesian fantasy, Cortázar enthusiastically seeds his realistic settings – for the most part split between Buenos Aires and Paris – with impossible invasions of the fantastical and supernatural. The effect is often a refined philosophical take on the "uncanny tales" strand of speculative fiction * Guardian *Cortázar is one of the most distinctive voices in Latin American literature * Newsday *Original...circuitous and powerful... Cortázar's method is to keep tight control over a world in which, just below the surface of charming, sophisticated social life, lies the unfaceable and unmentionable * Financial Times *Cortázar can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night * Time *A first-class literary imagination at work * The New York Times Book Review *

    15 in stock

    £10.44

  • Hopscotch

    Vintage Publishing Hopscotch

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisJulio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds of potential meanings and intimations' Times Literary SupplementDazed by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris, the sounds of jazz and the talk of literature, life and art echoing around him. But a chance encounter with a literary idol and his new work – a novel that can be read in random order – sends Horatio’s mind into further confusion. As a return to Buenos Aires beckons, Horatio’s friend and fellow artist, Traveler, awaits his arrival with dread –the lives of these two young writers now ready to play out in an inexhaustible game of indeterminacy.Trade ReviewCortazar'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 worldAnyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed -- Pablo NerudaI'm permanently indebted to the work of Cortázar -- Roberto Bolaño

    15 in stock

    £10.44

  • 62

    Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd 62

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    £13.25

  • Cronopios and Famas

    Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Cronopios and Famas

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £9.49

  • All Fires the Fire

    Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd All Fires the Fire

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £9.49

  • New Directions Publishing Cronopios and Famas

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.99

  • Final Exam

    Random House Final Exam

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisJulio 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.

    15 in stock

    £9.49

  • The Winners

    Random House The Winners

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisJulio 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.

    10 in stock

    £9.49

  • A Manual for Manuel

    Random House A Manual for Manuel

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisJulio 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.

    15 in stock

    £9.49

  • 62 A Model Kit

    Random House 62 A Model Kit

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisJulio 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.

    15 in stock

    £9.49

  • Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An

    Autonomedia Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An

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    £13.49

  • Hopscotch and Blow-Up

    Everyman Hopscotch and Blow-Up

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisWith his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of an Argentinean writer living in Paris with his lover and a circle of bohemian friends, and consists of 155 short chapters that the author advises us to read out of order. Blow-Up brings together the most famous of Cortázar's short fiction--stories where invisible beasts stalk children in their homes, where a man reading a mystery finds out that he is the murderer's intended victim. In Cortázar's work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative all fall away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.

    5 in stock

    £17.09

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Andrés Favas Tagebuch

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    Out of stock

    £12.60

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Die Nacht auf dem Rcken Die Erzhlungen Vier Bnde

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £16.20

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Die Erzählungen.

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £16.20

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Die Erzhlungen Vier Bnde Band 3

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £18.00

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Die Erzählungen. Vier Bände

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £19.80

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Die Autonauten auf der Kosmobahn

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £20.40

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG 62Modellbaukasten

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £14.40

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Bestiarium

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.40

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Die geheimen Waffen Erzhlungen

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £13.30

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Der Verfolger

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £10.45

  • Suhrkamp Verlag AG Rayuela Himmel und Hlle

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £15.30

  • Lilienfeld Verlag Die Katzen Los gatos

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £16.20

  • Berenberg Verlag Unerwartete Nachrichten

    Out of stock

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    Out of stock

    £20.00

  • Poesía completa Julio Cortázar  Complete Poetry

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Poesía completa Julio Cortázar Complete Poetry

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £18.29

  • Corrección de Pruebas En Alta Provenza

    2 in stock

    £15.20

  • El Último Combate (the Last Combat, Spanish

    Out of stock

    £20.71

  • Fórcola Ediciones Los signos en rotación

    Out of stock

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    £12.64

  • Nórdica Libros El aplastamiento de las gotas

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisEn este pequeño relato Cortázar da vida a las gotas de lluvia. Desde los goterones que caen de las fachadas a las pequeñas gotitas que se suicidan en los ventanales. La ilustración de Elena Odriozola le da una dimensión nueva al relato. Añadiendo a la historia dos personajes, testigos de la fugacidad de las gotas de lluvia.

    1 in stock

    £15.67

  • Alfaguara Historias y cronopios y de famas

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisEncuadernación: RústicaHistorias de cronopios y de famas es uno de los libros legendarios de Julio Cortázar. Postulación de una mirada poética capaz de enfrentar las miserias de la rutina y del sentido común, Cortázar toma aquí partido por la imaginación creadora y el humor corrosivo de los surrealistas.Esta colección de cuentos y viñetas entrañables es una introducción privilegiada al mundo inagotable de uno de los más grandes escritores de este siglo y un antídoto seguro contra la solemnidad y el aburrimiento.Sin duda alguna, con este libro Cortázar sella un pacto de complicidad definitiva e incondicional con sus lectores.

    2 in stock

    £24.06

  • Rayuela (Edicion conmemorativa 50 Aniversario)

    Espanol Santillana Universidad de Salamanca Rayuela (Edicion conmemorativa 50 Aniversario)

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £34.29

  • Alfaguara Bestiario

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisLos cuentos que forman Bestiario nos hablan de objetos y hechos cotidianos, pero pasan a la dimensión de la pesadilla o de la revelación de un modo natural e imperceptible. Sorpresa, incomodidad, desazón, misterio, intriga. son sensaciones que atrapan al lector a medida que avanza en su lectura. Es el vértigo que se siente ante lo inexplicable, ante el descubrimiento de que existen mundos paralelos y que Cortázar ha tendido el puente unión entre ellos."Casa tomada", "Carta a una señorita en París", "Lejana", "Ómnibus", "Cefalea", "Circe", "Las puertas del cielo", "Bestiario". Después de leer estos ocho auténticos clásicos del género, nuestra opinión sobre el mundo no puede seguir siendo la misma.

    1 in stock

    £17.00

  • Queremos tanto a Glenda / We Love Glenda So Much

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Queremos tanto a Glenda / We Love Glenda So Much

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £20.70

  • Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Animalia. Cuentos de Julio Cortázar / Animalia.

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £17.53

  • Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Deshoras / Unreasonable Hours

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £13.18

  • Espanol Santillana Universidad de Salamanca Examen, El

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £19.76

  • Alianza Editorial Antología poética

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisCantor y heraldo del amor, maestro de poetas, figura indispensable de la lírica española del siglo XX, Pedro Salinas (1891-1951) tomó parte activa en el efervescente panorama literario que habría de truncar en 1936 el estallido de la Guerra Civil, acontecimiento que le llevó, como a tantos otros, al exilio. La tarea de selección y ordenación de esta ?Antología poética? corre a cargo de Julio Cortázar, que explica en su prólogo los motivos por los que ha prescindido de la secuencia cronológica, las razones que le han llevado a dar prelación a los poemas de amor y los criterios que han guiado su labor.

    1 in stock

    £11.95

  • Alianza Editorial Octaedro

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisPublicado en 1974, " Octaedro " ocupa un privilegiado lugar dentro del ciclo de volúmenes de relatos con el que Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) fue fijando sus obsesiones personales y las del tiempo que le tocó habitar. Los ocho cuentos que lo componen son ocho caras de un nítido poliedro que el escritor argentino dibujó con un lenguaje estrechamente ceñido a la índole especial de cada historia, buscando esa difícil unidad dentro de lo diverso que concede excepcionalidad a un volumen de relatos. De esta forma, separada e inseparable, cada faceta del octaedro enlaza con las restantes, aunque cada una de ellas sea un pequeño mundo que se basta a sí mismo para entreabrir las puertas del miedo, del extrañamiento, de la insidiosa irrupción de lo fantástico en el más claro momento de un día o una vida. En esta misma colección: " Los relatos " completos de Julio Cortázar en cuatro volúmenes: " Ritos " , " Juegos " , " Pasajes " , " Ahí y ahora " .

    1 in stock

    £11.95

  • Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos. Tomo II

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisEn La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos (1967) Julio Cortázar propone desde el título, una visión distinta de la conocida. Ese es el sentido de la inversión del título de la obra clásica de Julio Verne. A partir de ahí arrancan los efectos de "improvisación" y disgresión repartidos a lo largo de los "ochenta mundos": "A mi tocayo le debo el título de este libro y a Lester Young la libertad de alterarlo sin ofender la saga de Phileas Fogg". Julio Verne y el jazz se conjugan y dialogan en la escritura intersticial de Cortázar y sus mundos.El libro muestra la formación universal del autor y puede considerarse como su enciclopedia personal en donde se incluyen sus reflexiones sobre la literatura, el mundo, su posición política, su creación poética, sus lecturas y autores preferidos, sus descubrimientos por analogías, su sentido del humor. Un inventario tan variado que gira permanentemente en torno de sus preocupaciones fundamentales.

    1 in stock

    £18.12

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