| All Fires the Fire Contributor(s): Cortázar, Julio (Author), Levine, Suzanne Jill (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811229459 ISBN-13: 9780811229456 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2019053867 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cort zar (author of Hopscotch and the short story "Blow-Up" ) creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where lives intersect for brief moments and situations break and refract. All Fires the Fire contains some of Julio Cort zar's most beloved stories. It is a classic collection by "one of the world's great writers" (Washington Post). |
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.Levine, Suzanne Jill: - Suzanne Jill Levine is a leading translator of Latin American literature, and professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara where she directs a Translation Studies doctoral program. |