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  <title><![CDATA[Blow-Up: And Other Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim...In the stories collected here -- including &quot;Blow-Up;' on which Antonioni based his film -- Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1963</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Blow-Up: And Other Stories</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Julio Cortázar]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories gave me the deepest, from-childhood reading pleasure of anything I can remember reading in the past year, maybe the past five. Cortazar is master of the phase transition: from innocence to corruption, lover to rapist, human to beast, living to dead, reader to character, from a soul in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50653929">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 10 17:10:19 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A while ago Molly was going to lend this book to me.  Then she changed her mind and kept it. I had to wait until she left for Spain to read it.  I thought this was strange at the time, a bit selfish, out-of-character, but I understand now.  Looking at it lying on my bed after I finished it just now,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7763684">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 25 16:54:42 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[after reading Hopscotch...and reading it some more I figured I'd continue hanging out in Julio's alternate universe for awhile...though I understand that in English he is &quot;more intense.&quot; ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first story of Cortazar's that I ever read was &quot;La Noche Boca Arriba&quot;, roughly translatable as &quot;The Night Turned Upside Down&quot;. It creeped me out then, and it still creeps me out. As in many of Cortazar's stories, it revolves around the idea that the protagonist simultaneously...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62174063">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe it isn't fair to review this since I only read the four stories that I have to read for class, but I'll go ahead.  I think Cortazar should have written poetry, if he didn't.  His language is absolutely arresting and beautiful, and many paragraphs, if lineated, would make great poems, or even p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72752585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="190995">
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    <body><![CDATA[oxolotl is my favorite story. i read it when i used to live in front of my fishtank and memorize the patterns they would swim in. this story came out of my fishtank, back in history, onto the written page and into my hands... then it made me surreal insane and sublime... i fell in love with this man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/190995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74577302">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The stories in this marvelous collection are divided into three numbered sections and were drawn from three different anthologies first published in Spanish.  The first stories, section one and the beginning of section two, are magnificently surreal—a man watches axolotls (a Mexican salamander) at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74577302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43800210">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While reading this book, I turned into the book, but remained myself looking at the book looking at me.  Then I threw up a bunny who, it turns out, is creeping up behind me as I write these wor-]]></body>
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    <review id="4813294">
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    <body><![CDATA[I cannot for the life of me get through this.]]></body>
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    <review id="36081325">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Dec 13 19:04:38 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I thought of something odd. I arrived in the terrible city and it was afternoon, a green watery afternoon as afternoons never are if one does not help out by thinking of them.&quot; -22<br/><br/>&quot;I remember that I stopped to look at the river which was like spoiled mayonnaise thrashing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36081325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31971579">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jacob]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up from the library because China Mieville, in his list of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://oat.tao.ca/node/view/218">Fifty Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read</a>, recommended &quot;House Taken Over&quot; as &quot;<em>A terrifying short story undermining the notion of the house as sanctity and refuge. A subtle destruction of t...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31971579">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55221502">
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  <date_added>Wed May 06 20:51:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 06 21:24:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you came up to me and said you felt like reading some really good short stories, this is the book I would put in your hand. Amazing stuff! My vote for the best set of short stories by one author.<br/><br/>Here's a link to just one of the treats you will find within these pages, a quickie I read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55221502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72038638">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not the axolotl of a one trick Porteñan pony with half a tail in Paris.  I am just a burro on a windy, rainy street, but I am not behind the glass or a disconnected mirror. There is a nineteenth century streetlamp next to me and it illuminates gold wisps of dust that disappear down the alleywa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72038638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37325221">
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    <name><![CDATA[Christina]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a recommendation from Alex.  When I first started reading it, I found his style very gimmicky, and thought his leaving things unsaid was largely unjustified in his stories.  But as the book progressed, I both settled into this style and the stories got more meaty, with greater characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37325221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42987397">
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes this collection seems like its comprised of variations on a few writer's tricks: limited viewpoint, stream of consciousness, the overlap between fantasy (or dream, or a parallel life) and reality. But Cortazar also has marvelous powers of observation, of being able to relate the palpable b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42987397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic surrealist short stories. Favorite quote: &quot;There was a time when I thought a lot about the axolotl. I went to see them in the aquarium in the Jardin des Plantes and remained there for hours looking at them, observing their immobility, their obscure movements. Now I am an axolotl.&quot;...]]></body>
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    <review id="1441253">
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    <body><![CDATA['Axolotl', the first story in the collection, is a small jewel -- through the guise of a lively transformation parable (could have leapt right out of Ovid...), Cortazar playfully convinces the reader to meditate -- briefly and cogently -- on consciousness, and on the quirky obsessions that can add a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1441253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <location><![CDATA[Lizella, GA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of this collection features stories in which something inevitably magical happens to otherwise normal people, often substitutions such as a man becoming a fish, or another who vomits up little rabbits.  Included in this is one of my favorite Cortazar stories, &quot;The Night Face Up,&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30507615">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not nearly as good as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53413.Hopscotch" title="Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar">Hopscotch</a>, but there are some fantastic stories in there. 3.5, I say.]]></body>
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