In a collection of stories that explore life’s mystery, a tiger stalks a vacation home and a man discovers that in the mystery he is reading, he is the victim.

A group of random people receives notice that they have won a cruise. Once they become passengers onboard the Malcolm, they find themselves tangled in the web of a mystery…

Stories that appeal in equal measure to aesthetic sensibility, linguistic mistrust and a discerning intelligence that fashions new riddles from old enigmas; passion, the life of the imagination, parallel times…

When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires, in a novel in which the chapters are designed…

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Lateinamerikanische Sprachen, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 1,0, Freie Universitat Berlin (Lateinamerika Institut), Veranstaltung: Cortazar / Borges: Das erzahlerische Werk, 14 Quellen im…

A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar’s The Pursuer, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

Counternovel, chronicle of madness, the black hole in an enormous funnel, a shout of alert, a type of atomic bomb, a call to necessary disorder, an immense cloud of smoke…

Using feminist revisions of psychoanalytic thought and cultural studies, examines the pervasive role of the conception of the feminine in the short stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortazar (1914 -…