by Julio Cortázar · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466303606
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«Las armas secretas» is the short story collection by Julio Cortázar, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together five stories, including «Cartas de mamá», «Los buenos servicios» and the title piece. It includes «Las babas del diablo», adapted for film by Michelangelo Antonioni as Blow-Up, and «El perseguidor», a tribute to the jazz of Charlie Parker.
The original work was published in 1959; the Punto de Lectura edition is from 2001.
For a general audience interested in classics of short Latin American fiction.
Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
