Blow-Up and Other Stories
Julio Cortázar · 1967
Cortazar's fantastic realism operates differently from Borges; more surrealist, more erotic, more politically charged. "Blow-Up" (adapted by Antonioni in 1966) is one of the most analyzed stories of the 20th century.
The case against
Cortázar reuses his favorite trick: a fantastic intrusion arrives, the narrator dissolves into it, the story ends mid-vertigo. Read all fifteen in sequence and the device shows its gears. The title story shares little with Antonioni's film beyond a camera, and its narrator switches person mid-sentence; you will reread the first page three times.
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