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Todos Los Fuegos El Fuego/All Fires the Fire (Spanish Edition)

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This incredible book of short stories depicts the profound intricacies and the rich variety of human passions, but it does so most particularly in "Todos los fuegos el fuego", the short story that gives its name to the book. Cortazar's talent as a writer allows him to mask his themes behind a cunning phrasing of words, which may cause surprise at times, and which provide the reader with the enormous pleasure of interpreting them, recreating the stories alongside with him.Cortazar displays, throughout these stories, his particular way of envisioning reality, and yet his conclusions, masked as literary metaphors or writing techniques, rise to become universal in the end, proving all of us that however unique we may feel, we still have our passions, our sufferings, and solitudes, in common. The ordinary aspects of life always vanish with Cortazar, giving way to the unexpected.