Las armas secretas
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| Author | Julio Cortázar |
|---|---|
| Original title | Las armas secretas |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
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Las armas secretas (The Secret Weapons) is a book of short stories written by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.
The book opens with "Letters from Mom," a story about an Argentine couple living in exile in Paris, where they live under the yoke of a dark story that happened before they left Buenos Aires.
The second story is called "Good services," and is a mystery with a strong element of social criticism.
The third is "The Droolings of the Devil," all a digression, executed as a metalinguistic reflection of the narration (its beginning guarantees it: Never will you know how it has to be told, if in the first person or in the second, using the third person plural or continually inventing forms that serve no purpose...). This story inspired the film Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni.
The fourth story is "The Persecutor," an homage to jazz and particularly the creator of bebop, Charlie Parker, in which Cortázar unfurls countless musical choices, between allegories and metaphors, that reveal to the reader the author's exquisite melomania (passion for music).
The final story is marked inside as the "Daily Terror," the story of the same title as the book that assembles these stories, centering on the conflict between Pierre and Michele, a young couple in Paris after World War II.
