''Bestiario'' is a book of eight

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

written by

Julio Cortázar Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ent ...

. All the stories (except "Cefalea" and "Circe") were translated to English by Paul Blackburn and included in the collection ''

End of the Game and Other Stories ''Blow-Up and Other Stories'' is a collection of short stories, selected from the short fiction of the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar.This article refers to the 1967, 1963 Random House Copyrighted publication of the book by this name, as tra ...

'' (1967). The "Cefalea" ("Headache") was translated in English by

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in 2014 and published online by tor.com."Headache" by Julio Cortázar
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Stories

* " Casa Tomada" ("House Taken Over") * "Carta a una señorita en París" (Letter to a Young Lady in Paris") * "Lejana" ("The Distances") * "Ómnibus" ("Omnibus") * "Cefalea" ("Headache") * "Circe" ("Circe") * "Las puertas del cielo" ("The Gates of Heaven") * "Bestiario" ("Bestiary")

References

1951 short story collections Postmodern books Short story collections by Julio Cortázar {{postmodernism-stub