Cuentos completos II
Short stories and novellas , 1994
Alfaguara
Pages: 552
Second volume of an essential short story collection.
In this volume, readers will find all of Cortázar’s short story collections published between 1969 and 1982, along with a novelty: stories posthumously included in Papeles inesperados (2009) that, by title or date, could have belonged to them. Último round, Octaedro, Alguien que anda por ahí, Un tal Lucas, Queremos tanto a Glenda, and Deshoras make up this second volume of Cortázar's complete short stories.
"Cortázar's true revolution lies in his short stories." —Mario Vargas Llosa
"Of the great writers I've known, none, except Borges, seemed to have thought as deeply as he did about the problem of form and style. To this learned mastery, passed from writer to writer, we must add his own mastery, what we owe him, and what future generations will owe him." —Abelardo Castillo
"One cannot overlook the influence of his texts on much of the narrative written in Spanish after him." —José Donoso