JULIO CORTÁZAR (1914-1984) was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose works combined existential questioning with experimental writing techniques. Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe. He has been called both a "modern master of the short story" and, by Carlos Fuentes, "the Simón Bolívar of the novel."
Cortázar's masterpiece, HOPSCOTCH (1963), is an open-ended, stream-of-consciousness novel, or counter-novel, in which the reader is invited to rearrange the different parts of the novel according to a plan prescribed by the author. It was the first of the "boom" of Latin American novels of the 1960s to gain international attention.
The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:
* 62: A Model Kit (New Directions, 2013). Translated by Gregory Rabassa. -- ePUB
* Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (North Point, 1986). Translated by Thomas Christensen. -- PDF
* Art of Fiction, The (Paris Review, Fall 1984). Interview by James Weiss. -- PDF
* Blow-Up & Other Stories (Collier, 1968 / Pantheon, 2014). Translated by Paul Blackburn. -- ePUB + PDF
* Cronopios and Famas (New Directions, 1999). Translated by Paul Blackburn. -- ePUB + PDF
* Final Exam (New Directions, 2000). Translated by Alfred Mac Adam. -- ePUB
* Headache (Tor, 2014). Translated by Michael Cisco. -- ePUB
* Hopscotch (Pantheon, 2014). Translated by Gregory Rabassa. -- ePUB + PDF (courtesy of @pharmakate)
* Hopscotch / Blow-Up & Other Stories / We Love Glenda So Much & Other Tales (Everyman's Library, 2014). Translated by Gregory Rabassa and Paul Blackburn, with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans. -- ePUB
* Manual for Manuel, A (Pantheon, 1978). Translated by Gregory Rabassa. -- PDF
* Winners, The (New York Review Books, 1999). Translated by Elaine Kerrigan, with an Introduction by Alastair Reid. -- PDF