A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murdererâs intended victim . . .
Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected hereâincluding âBlow-Up,â which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioniâs film of the same nameâshows Julio CortĂĄzar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murdererâs intended victim . . .
Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected hereâincluding âBlow-Up,â which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioniâs film of the same nameâshows Julio CortĂĄzar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.