- Published: 6 February 2020
- ISBN: 9781473572430
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
Bestiary
- Published: 6 February 2020
- ISBN: 9781473572430
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 368
A fecund mixture of surrealism, symbolism, nouveau roman experimentation and Borgesian fantasy, Cortázar enthusiastically seeds his realistic settings – for the most part split between Buenos Aires and Paris – with impossible invasions of the fantastical and supernatural. The effect is often a refined philosophical take on the "uncanny tales" strand of speculative fiction
Chris Power, Guardian
A first-class literary imagination at work
The New York Times Book Review
Cortázar can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night
Time
Cortázar is one of the most distinctive voices in Latin American literature
Newsday
Original...circuitous and powerful... Cortázar's method is to keep tight control over a world in which, just below the surface of charming, sophisticated social life, lies the unfaceable and unmentionable
Financial Times