CORTÁZAR, Julio.

Bestiario.

Buenos Aires, Editorial Sudamericana, [1951]. 8vo, pp. 165, [5], plus final blank; a very good copy, uncut in the original wrappers, spine rubbed at extremities. First edition of Cortázar’s first collection of short stories and his first attempt at fiction, published the month he left Argentina, permanently as it turned out, for Paris. It was preceded by the poem Presencia (1938, under the pen-name ‘Julio Denis’), Los reyes (1949), a dramatic prose poem retelling the legend of Theseus, and some translations.The first story in the collection, Casa tomada, was originally published by Borges in Los anales de Buenos Aires, although he did not appreciate it himself: ‘He is trying so hard on every page to be original that it becomes a tiresome battle of wits, no?’. Despite this criticism, Bestiario was a resounding success and made a name for Cortázar with the reading public.‘Anyone who doesn’t read Cortázar is doomed. Not to read him is a grave invisible disease which in time can have terrible consequences. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. He would quietly become sadder, noticeably paler, and probably, little by little, he would lose his hair’ (Pablo Neruda).

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