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Las armas secretas reunites five stories that are part of the best representation of this genre. With the excellence of stories like "Cartas de mam#65533;”, "Los buenos servicios” and "Las armas secretas”, two masterpieces stand out: "Las babas del diablo” (adapted to film by Michelangelo Antonioni as Blow up) and "El perseguidor”, perhaps the most perfect and moving tribute to a jazz genius, Charlie Parker.Tags
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Sui primi due racconti il tempo scivola inesorabile, irraggiungibile. Perso.
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Il terzo racconto è una visione distorta, un segreto inarrivabile - che Antonioni ha interpretato in modo degnissimo et superlativo, e che non posso non figurarmi man mano che leggo.
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Il quarto è un punto inarrivabile nel delirio di un artista, messo su carta. Neanche vivendo quello che ha scritto si riuscirebbe a scriverlo; è una magia, un tocco di illuminazione, un barattolo di miracolo.
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Il quinto racconto una pizza, dopo due pagine ho chiuso e sono passato ad altro.
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Il terzo racconto è una visione distorta, un segreto inarrivabile - che Antonioni ha interpretato in modo degnissimo et superlativo, e che non posso non figurarmi man mano che leggo.
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Il quarto è un punto inarrivabile nel delirio di un artista, messo su carta. Neanche vivendo quello che ha scritto si riuscirebbe a scriverlo; è una magia, un tocco di illuminazione, un barattolo di miracolo.
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Il quinto racconto una pizza, dopo due pagine ho chiuso e sono passato ad altro.
Las armas secretas (translates to The Secret Weapons in English) is a book of five short stories written by Julio Cortzar.
Es un relato más experimental e inquietante, en donde se entrelazan delirios, frases recurrentes y escenas que se repiten. Trata sobre una pareja que no logra consumar la intimidad. Abarca dos temas principales; uno mundano (El abuso sexual) y otro psicológico (El desdoblamiento de la personalidad)
May 1, 2021Spanish
Du Cortazar pur jus, un peu absurde, un peu loufoque,
May 26, 2025French
Publica uno de sus mejores cuentos, se refleja humorismo de tipo intelectual.
Feb 11, 2016Catalan
Con el título de Las armas secretas, Cortázar publicó éste y cuatro relatos más: Cartas de mamá, Los buenos servicios, Las babas del diablo y El perseguidor. Entre ellos destaca especialmente este último, que el propio autor considera como una bisagra que divide en dos lados toda su producción. Con él inagura una nueva manera de sentir la realidad y de moverse en ella. Mediante análisis múltiples de la misma, desde y con el lenguaje, Cortázar se sumerge en una búsqueda antológica para llegar a una ordenación diferente de los real, que no es exactamente ni fantasía ni retrato.
Mar 24, 2014Spanish
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Julio Cortazar is an Argentine poet, short story writer, and translator, whose pseudonym is Julio Denis. He was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1914. In 1918, he moved with his parents to their native Argentina. He taught high school and later French literature at the University of Cuyo, resigning after participating in demonstrations against show more Argentine President Juan Peron. He worked for a Buenos Aires publishing company and also earned a degree as a translator. Cortazar is part of the "boom" of excellence in Latin American letters in the 1950s and 1960s. He combines fantastic plots with commonplace events and characters, and looks for new ways for literature to represent life. His first novel, The Winners, tells the story of passengers on a luxury liner who are restricted to a certain area of the ship and forbidden to communicate with the crew. He explores the ways passengers react. Hopscotch has a complex narrative structure with 165 chapters that can be read in at least two logical sequences to create variations. A Change of Light and Other Stories is a short story collection dealing with themes ranging from political oppression to fantasy. We Love Glenda So Much is about a fan club murder of their favorite actress whose films do not meet their standards. A Certain Lucas is comprised of three sections of short observations, discussing the nature of reality, the exploration of literary form, and search for new ways to view the world. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Les Armes secrètes
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- Las Armas Secretas
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- 1959
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- Argentinië
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- Español
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