| 62: A Model Kit Contributor(s): Cortázar, Julio (Author), Rabassa, Gregory (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811214370 ISBN-13: 9780811214377 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: Word games and dream logic fuel 62: A Model Kit, Julio Cortazar's 1968 novel about a hybrid European city. First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, the maze-like tale deconstructs the urban, intellectual existence in virtuosic prose, charting the encounters and adventures of a group of multinational bohemians. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99058526 |
| Series: New Directions Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.2" W x 8.02" (0.74 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in Oslo. This cityscape, as Carlos Fuentes describes it, seems drawn up by the Marx Brothers with an assist from Bela Lugosi! It is the meeting place for a wild assortment of bohemians in a novel described by The New York Times as Deeply touching, enjoyable, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious. Library Journal has said 62: A Model Kit is a highly satisfying work by one of the most extraordinary writers of our time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cortazar, Julio: - Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer, was born in Brussels, and moved permanently to France in 1951. Cortazar is now recognized as one of the century's major experimental writers, reflecting the influence of French surrealism, psychoanalysis, and his love of both photography and jazz, along with his strong commitment to revolutionary Latin American politics.Rabassa, Gregory: - Gregory Rabassa was born in Yonkers, New York, March 9, 1922. He grew up north of Hanover, NH, graduated from Dartmouth College, Class of 1944, Phi Beta Kappa, and got his MA, and PhD at Columbia University after serving as a U.S. Army, Infantry, Staff Sgt during World War II. One of Latin American literature's most distinguished translators, Gregory Rabassa translated more than thirty novels from Spanish and Portuguese into English -- including works by Jorge Amado, Miguel Angel Asturias, Julio Cortázar, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Most notably, he translated Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Among his many awards, Gregory Rabassa was a Fulbright Fellow, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, the Gregory Kolovakos Award, PEN. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at Queens College/CUNY and The Graduate School/CUNY. |