Die Erzählungen. Vier Bände

Julio Cortázar is a master at the art of blending the experienced and the imaginary into an explosive mix. The fantastic and wonderful aspects of events prove to be inherent to reality. His stories each showcase an aspect of humanity's struggle against fatigue and the absurd, against the shackles of conventions and the violence of dictatorships: against all that obstructs the path to truth and happiness.

“The everyday and the unheard of come together in Cortázar's work with the naturalness and inevitability with which plants grow, stars shine and orbit, and blood pulses in our veins. A prose that makes language hop, dance, and fly.” - Octavio Paz

Julio Cortázar, born in Brussels in 1914, lived in Buenos Aires until 1951 and died in Paris in 1984. His extensive body of work marks him as one of the most significant authors of the 20th century.