Praise
Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease which in time can have terrible consequences. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. He would quietly become sadder. . . and, probably, little by little, he would lose his hair.
Cortázar is a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night.
This beautiful amalgam of 'marvelous instances' tilts against the 'airy blades' of empty thought with vengeance. Equal parts tender wit, elegant aside and acid observation, Diary of Andrés Fava, which comes to us from the desk of one of the 20th century's greatest literary explorers, is 100 percent delight.
Extras
An interview with translator Anne McLean by Jessa Crispin of Bookslut
Read a piece (en español) on Julio Cortázar on Pagina/12.