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  <default-description>Argentinian novelist, Julio Cortazar, offers 15 essays written between 1976 and 1983 on the artistic renaissance which followed the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, the Contra war and the writer's role in Latin America. Included here is Cortazar's speech upon receiving the Ruben Dario award.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[a really evocative book of snippets about a country that is little understood by a man who clearly loved it. perhaps not the best example of cortazar's prose, and thus not the best place to begin with him, as all i've read before has been his poetry, i nonetheless enjoyed his style and the inside lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29534636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Julio Cortazar is a giant. You know you're good when Borges sings your praises. But this book was not up to par compared to Hopscotch or Blow Up. Without having seen a Spanish copy my guess is that its a very poor translation. Nevertheless it has some gems in the last two essays. And it's timely now...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770594">more...</a>]]></body>
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