Blow-Up

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer''s victim . . . In the fifteen stories collected here—including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni''s film of the same name—Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible.