Hopscotch and Blow-Up

With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cort-r 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 Cort-r''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 Cort-r''s work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative all fall away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.