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 murderer's intended victim . . .
Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here-including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name-shows Julio Cortázar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
ONE
Axolotl 3
House Taken Over 10
The Idol of the Cyclades 28
Letter to a Young Lady in Paris 39
A Yellow Flower 51
TWO
Continuity of Parks 63
The Night Face Up 66
Bestiary 77
The Gates of Heaven 97
Blow-Up 114
THREE
End of the Game 135
At Your Service 150
The Pursuer 182
Secret Weapons 248
