End of the Game: And Other Stories

by Julio Cortázar

Book Overview

El libro es b sicamente un juego, un juego para el lector. Y su ltimo cuento, «Final del juego , es simplemente el final de ese entretenimiento que se desarrolla mientras se lee. Empe ado en... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060906375
• ISBN13: 9780060906375
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of a kind

This is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. Don't be thrown off by the "out of print"...it's still available--now under the name "Blow-up"... republished after one of the stories was made into a movie.

The best of the best

wonderful, excelent, perfect. Cortazar is a GENIUS. That's all. (I recomend "Don't blame anyone")

A remarkable collection of short masterpieces

"Final de Juego" (or Endgame) is one of the most remarkable books in Julio Cortazar's vast bibliography. A collection of 18 short stories, this book is a clear example of Cortazar's genius and mastery as a story teller. All the stories are gripping to the end, but "No se culpe a nadie" (Do not blame anyone), "El rio" (The river), "Axolotl" and "La noche boca arriba" (The night facing up), deserve special mention. Cortazar's style was truly revolutionary, and he managed to shake the literary establishment becoming an obligatory reference and an influence on many writers, both in Latin America and in the rest of the world. This volume constitutes an excellent way to approach one of the best writers of the Twentieth Century.

Excelente obra de un maestro de la pluma.

Final del juego es uno de los primeros libros de cuentos de Cortazar, en este se encuentran cuentos ya clasicos como "No se culpe a nadie", "El rio" y "Axolotl". Cortazar tiene la maravillosa propiedad de hacerte llevar a un lugar magico, que va mas alla de los sueños y este libro lo refleja. Si le gusta cortazar, compre este libro o aun mejor, compre "Cuentos completos 1" que contiene a este libro. No hace falta decir que la obra maestra de Cortazar es "Rayuela", asi que si este libro le gusto, "Rayuela" lo atrapara aun mas.

Julio Cortazar should have won the Nobel for Literature!

This is a great writer! He is funny, fantastic and humerous, and has great compassion and insight into the human heart, as witness his lead story of the collection. The movie blow-up (the original) was based on his story in this collection. A reader of a myster novel finds himself in the plot, a man becomes a fish, a couple are gradually moved out of their house by mysterous house guests and a young girl comes face to face with her disability in the title story, and her inability to face love. great collection.