by Julio Cortázar · Ediciones Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420421322
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«Las armas secretas» is the short story collection by Julio Cortázar, published by Ediciones Alfaguara in paperback (180 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together five stories, including the title piece, «Cartas de mamá», «Los buenos servicios», «Las babas del diablo» and «El perseguidor». In them Cortázar explores reality, perception and the search for meaning through innovative language and structures that question literary conventions.
The work originally appeared in 1959; this 1982 edition belongs to the Literatura Alfaguara series.
A book suitable for those who enjoy short stories and want to approach twentieth-century Latin American literature.
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.
