Correspondencia (Spanish, Paperback)

Composed of a series of unpublished letters between Julio Cortazar, his wife Carol Dunlop, and the translator Silvia Monros-Stojakovic, this volume presents three first-rate writers at their most unguarded and very best. Cortazar is Cortazar, of course; Monros-Stojakovic proves herself an agile and witty writer, offering insights into the tense social and political situation in Belgrade in the early 1980s; and Dunlop, coauthor with Cortazar of "Autonauts of the Cosmoroute," writes in a hesitant but highly evocative Spanish, revealing details that will be of particular interest to Cortazar aficionados. The letters unspool a narrative thread of high literary value--a story in which Cortazar and Dunlop are the protagonists--and provides previously unknown biographical details. They also serve as a unique testament to the unbridled passion that the three writers felt for literature and life.