("The Autonauts of the Cosmoroute") is a book 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 ...

in collaboration with Carol Dunlop, who died shortly before it was published. It narrates the couple's extended expedition along the autoroute from Paris to Marseille during the months of May and June 1982.

Publication

The book was written by the authors in Spanish- and French-language versions, which were published simultaneously. An English-language translation (as ''Autonauts of the Cosmoroute'') was published by Archipelago Books in the U.S. in 2007, and Telegram books in the U.K. in 2008.

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Lost in Paris with Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop (Time: 8:40)
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