Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much. Introduction by Ilan Stavans

These three groundbreaking works by Julio Cortázar-a major figure of world literature and one of the founders of the Latin American Boom-are published together in one volume for the first time, in honor of the centenary of his birth.             With his influential "counternovel" HOPSCOTCH and his unforgettable short stories, Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century.
HOPSCOTCH is a nonlinear novel about an Argentinean writer living in Paris; it consists of 155 short chapters that the author advises the reader to read out of order. BLOW-UP and WE LOVE GLENDA SO MUCH bring together the most famous of Cortázar's short fiction, including "Axolotl, " "End of the Game, " "The Night Face Up, " "Continuity of Parks, " "Bestiary, " and "Blow-Up". These are stories in which invisible beasts stalk children in their homes, the reader of a mystery finds out that he is the murderer's intended victim, an injured motorcyclist is pursued by Aztec warriors, and a man becomes a salamander in a Parisian zoo.
In Cortázar's work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative fall away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.