Böcker av Julio Cortázar

The story of two young writers whose lives are playing themselves out in Buenos Aires and Paris to the sounds of jazz and brilliant talk, Hopscotch, written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel.

Cortazar's stories are descriptions of ordinary moments in which something impossible quietly takes place. His characters are all innocent: things happen to them but, if they are responsible for what takes place, their responsibility is not revealed to them. They must make sense of fated events.

Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Julio Cortázar is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. This special volume of the Encontros Collection is the result of interviews conducted between 1970 and 1977, in Paris, Barcelona, and Saignon, by Uruguayan writer and journalist Ernesto González Bermejo. In them, he reveals a Cortázar, at the same time intimate and extremely lucid about the procedures of his writing, in engaging talks about literature and his political commitment in the last years of his life. An indispensable book to get to know this great Argentinean author.

Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Perón's government), Final Exam is Julio Cortázar's bitter and melancholy allegorical farewell to an Argentina from which he would soon be permanently self-exiled.In a surreal Buenos Aires, a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone's bewilderment. Juan and Clara, two students at a college called "The House," meet up with their friends, and, instead of preparing for their final exam, wander the city, encountering strange happenings and pondering life in cafés. All the while, they are trailed by the mysterious Abel.With its daring typography, shifts in rhythm, as well as wildly veering directions of thought and speech, Final Exam breaks new ground in the territory of stream-of-consciousness writing. Darkly funny-and riddled with unresolved ambiguities-Final Exam is one of Cortázar's best works.Author of Hopscotch and Blow-Up, Julio Cortázar's (1914-1984) was a novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer. He was born in Brussels, lived in Argentina, but moved permanently to France in 1951, where he became one of the twentieth century's major experimental writers.