REVIEW Todos los fuegos el fuego

READ Ñ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ë Julio Cortázar Julio Cortázar Ë 0 DOWNLOAD REVIEW Todos los fuegos el fuego Si como el propio Julio Cortázar dijo una vez su literatura partía de la necesidad de ver ué hay al otro lado de las cosas este libro de relatos es un ejemplo cabal de ese Eight stories with a touch of magical realism like his countryman Borges Cortazar was born in Argentina but like so many other Latin American authors left for Paris in his late thirties and died there in 1984In the title story two stories are juxtaposed scenes of a Roman gladiator fighting for his life in an arena with modern scenes from a man on the phone with his wife girlfriend at his side Both stories end in conflagrations Another story starts with a week long traffic jam in Paris As food runs short and some older folks die without medical help people start to re create society They organize themselves into local tribes some help others and share their food others steal and sell for profit A family conspires to keep the news of the death of a brother from their elderly critically ill mother They think they succeed so well that they end up fooling themselves than the mother A band of brothers fight in the Spanish Civil War their comradery and feeling for each other offers some solace from what will be futility as the enemy closes in around themA young married nurse falls in love with a much younger awkward boy who is terminally illAn airline steward flies over the Mediterranean each day and becomes obsessed with a certain island he repeatedly sees from the air He uits his job moves to the island and experiences tragedy A man continues to seek the company of a prostitute even after he has become engaged He offers her protection from a serial killer preying on the night women When the killer is caught and he is ready to marry and be faithful he sees a life of emptiness ahead of him A man in a theater is pulled out of the audience and forced to play a part in a stage drama He goes along with the expected role for the first act but he ad libs in later acts with dire conseuences Pretty good stories but not up to those of the master

READ Ñ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ë Julio Cortázar Julio Cortázar Ë 0 DOWNLOAD REVIEW Todos los fuegos el fuego Propósito Publicado en 1966 este volumen contiene ocho cuentos inolvidables auténticos clásicos dentro de la obra del autor argentino La isla a mediodia La autopista del su I had read several recent reviews on this book and was encouraged to read this small collection of eight stories Published in 1966 some stories are written in a very experimental style Instructiones para John Howell and Todos los fuegos el fuego I have read his classic Rayuela a very experimental book and loved it I have to admit when Cort zar uses this techniue in a short story it can get confusing fast so one needs to pay attention or in my case read a passage to figure things outBut the joy is the short story is brevity and gettingmaking a point This is almost always at the very end La autopista del sur was not and one is either amazed or annoyed Almost all of these endings for me were in the first category There is humour love fear tragedy and just plain enjoyment involved here I found the last two stories as well as the first two as full five story reads the other four were good but a little lesser in wow factor for me So I would give it a 45 but I am sure other readers would bicker on this point If you like the short story these are worthy to readBelow are my individual reactionsLa autopista del sur At first I didn t uite grasp where Cort zar was going with this story because it just seemed too obvious A couple with a young child gets stuck in a huge traffic jam Everyone slowly begins to chat share food and water help each other but then this traffic jam seemed to go on and on For days or so it seemed Mysterious cars appear selling black market materials someone gets ill a person dies Then things tidy up The whole story is symbolism for our society At first we help but then bad things happen and our predictable lives are a mess This one packs a punch even though it s very subtleLa salud de Los enfermos I really enjoyed the black humour of this story Mama is old and very week One should not aggravate ever So when her youngest child the golden one sets off for Brazil as an engineer on a big project he gets killed in an accident The family decides its best not to tell her the truth He s busy or he can t get time off or any excuse Then her aging sister gets sick and dies now what do we do Loved this storyReuni n The soldiers land on the beach and Luis is going to help them Things go badly They seem to be on the run Will Luis help themLa se orita Cora This was a fun one Young teen boy in the hospital for appendicitis and in pain Enter nurse Cora She will make things better Won t she Nothing like young male loveLa isla a mediod a This story kicked off enjoyably Young Italian man flies over his favourite Greek island three times a week exactly at noon He has given up Carla acts like a playboy sleeping with whom he meets especially stewardesses But he can t get this island out of his head He borrows some money makes the challenging trip to the island only to discover there is only a family living there Then the unexpected happens Not uite what I was expectingInstructiones para John Howell A man his woman deceived by an another man is played out in a theatrical mannerTodos los fuegos el fuego This is a master of writing blending a scene from a Roman gladiator battle with a m nage between a man and two women The scenes switch sometimes every couple of lines but the symbolism is masterful Even that odd title All the fires the fire hits you after you read the last lines of the storyEl otro cielo Wow what a story This was my favourite in the book The narrator a runner in the stock market is engaged to Irma He is bored of his job and his impending marriage and freuents the brothels so typical of Latin American writers and spends the nights with Josiane He enjoys the other heaven but when mysterious Laurent begins killing prostitute things get tense The story is set during the forties in Buenos Aires and the lives of the working poor erupts with political upheaval the narrator is forced to make choices This political side intertwines the social side and Cort zar weaves a masterful story This is one to read

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READ Ñ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ë Julio Cortázar Julio Cortázar Ë 0 DOWNLOAD REVIEW Todos los fuegos el fuego R La señorita Cora y todos ellas anudados por lo fantástico por lo absurdo por esa necesidad de admitir y mostrar otras realidades ue guiaron siempre la escritura de Cortáz Cortazar created a certain kind of storytelling in the work collected in Blow Up and Other Stories a kind of moebius strip construction that flips over and loops back without slowing Here he seems consciously to keep pushing his forms forward defying the expectations he has laid out for himself and pushing in new directions or else cutting back to avoid the expected twist by some subtle maneuver The results vary in success making this a bit uneven as a collection but never for a moment boring The dystopian roadways of the opener stun in particular

• Mass Market Paperback
• 174
• Todos los fuegos el fuego
• Julio Cortázar
• Spanish
• 08 August 2018
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