by Julio Cortázar · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437601199
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«Las armas secretas» is Julio Cortázar's collection of short stories, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together five stories: «Cartas de mamá», «Los buenos servicios», «Las babas del diablo», «El perseguidor» and the one that gives the book its title. Cortázar saw «El perseguidor» as a turning point in his work: he explored another way of feeling reality, with multiple analyses and an intense use of language. Identity, time and the unusual are the volume's central themes.
Volume 69 of the Letras Hispánicas collection, edited by Susana Jakfalvi. This 17th edition came out in 2004; the work originally appeared in 1959.
Suitable for readers of short stories and twentieth-century Latin American literature, as well as for those who want to approach Cortázar's short 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.
