Out of hours

Cortázar's last book of short stories.

"Cortázar is the best."
Roberto Bolaño

"Cortázar's true revolution lies in his short stories. More discreet but more profound and permanent, because it stirred up the very nature of fiction, that inseparable core of form-content, means-end, art-technique that it becomes in the most accomplished creators. In his stories, Cortázar did not experiment: he found, discovered, created something imperishable."
Mario Vargas Llosa

"And I, well, I don't know what I understood, I'm telling you in case, you never know, the truth is I don't know why I'm telling you, maybe because I'm old and I talk too much."

Originally published in 1983, Deshoras was Julio Cortázar's last book of short stories. Wordplays that are not games, mirrors that lie and tell the truth at the same time, nightmares of fascism, secret societies about to come to light, abyssal symmetries, double simulations of love and death: the entire Cortazarian world, complex, cruel and fascinating, a cartography of the everyday and the unusual.

Reviews:
"Cortázar has left us a work perhaps unfinished but as beautiful and indestructible as his memory."
Gabriel García Márquez

"No other writer gave play the literary dignity that Cortázar did, nor did he make play such a flexible and profitable instrument of artistic creation and exploration. Cortázar's work opened unprecedented doors."
Mario Vargas Llosa

"Cortázar is almost a Bolívar of Latin American literature. He is a man who has liberated us, who has told us that anything is possible."
Carlos Fuentes

"Prose made of air, without weight or body but that blows an impetus and raises in our minds flocks of images and visions, a communicating vessel between the street rhythms of the city and the soliloquy of the poet."
Octavio Paz

"Cortázar is one of the best Argentine writers."
Adolfo Bioy Casares

"The influence of his texts on a good part of the narrative written in Spanish after him cannot be ignored."
José Donoso