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 by "one of the world's great writers" (Washington Post).
Contents:
The southern thruway -- The health of the sick -- Meeting -- Nurse Cora -- The island at noon -- Instructions for John Howell -- All fires the fire -- The other heaven.
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Original Work
Title: Todos los fuegos el fuego Author: Julio Cortázar Publisher: Editorial Sudamericana City: Buenos Aires Year of publication: 1966 Edition: 1 Number of pages: 197 pp. Translated in: 2020