by Julio Cortázar · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789505111930
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«Las armas secretas» is the short story collection by Julio Cortázar, published by Alfaguara in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together five stories in which the everyday becomes unsettling, with identity, desire and memory as central themes. It includes «Las babas del diablo», filmed by Antonioni as Blow-Up, and «El perseguidor», a tale inspired by Charlie Parker.
This edition dates from 1998 and belongs to the Biblioteca Cortázar collection; the cover has flaps.
For readers of short fiction and twentieth-century Latin American literature, especially those interested in the fantastic tale.
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.
