All Fires the Fire

All Fires the Fire

By Julio Cortázar

Pages

160

Rating

4.29

Year

1966

FantasyMagical RealismFictionClassics20Th CenturyLiterature

Description

A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch and the short story "Blow-Up") creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where lives intersect for brief moments and situations break and refract.

All Fires the Fire contains some of Julio Cortázar’s most beloved stories. It is a classic collection.

Endorsements

"One of the world’s great writers" — Washington Post