Julio Cortázar
(born Aug. 26, 1914, Brussels, Belg. — died Feb. 12, 1984, Paris, France) Argentine-French novelist and short-story writer. Born to Argentine parents, he was educated in Argentina. His first story collection,
Bestiario (1951; "Bestiary"), was published the year he moved to Paris, where he spent much of the rest of his life. His masterpiece,
Hopscotch (1963), is an open-ended novel, or
antinovel, in which the reader is invited to rearrange the chapters. One of his stories became the basis for
Michelangelo Antonioni's film
Blow-up (1966).
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