The Winners

Cortazar, Julio

Published by Pantheon Books, 1965

About this Item

New York. 1965. April 1965. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Translated from the Spanish by Elaine Kerrigan. 374 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. keywords: Latin America Argentina Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - The appearance of THE WINNERS in the United States is a major literary event, introducing an outstanding writer of remarkable scope and presenting an absorbing and altogether irresistible novel that will attain a notable position among the best works of fiction of our day. A widely assorted group of people win as a lottery prize a cruise-destination unknown. Their journey reads like-and is-a superb story of suspense that ranges from the most unconventional of love affairs to the violent death of one of the passengers. Part of the suspense revolves around the fact that the passengers are forbidden to cross over to the ship's stern, ostensibly because there is an epidemic among the mysterious crew. What is the danger, the plague? Does it really exist? Where are the consolations of authority to comfort them? If this is a pleasure cruise, why are they virtual prisoners? And the lines are drawn, the passengers divide into a war' party and a peace' party. But which one will insist upon breaking through the barriers and which one will bow to the ship's law? The novel's climax is their shocking confrontation with the question of who the winners really are, and what are their prizes. This book is the world in miniature, and some of contemporary fiction's most memorable characters inhabit it: a young unmarried couple whose first lovemakings are anything but what they had expected; a sophisticated architect traveling with a beautiful redhead whom the other passengers assume to be his mistress; a delightfully pompous schoolteacher whose devotion to bureaucracy is complete. These and others are forced to a deadly knowledge of themselves through Julio Cortázar's profound skill in creating a novel that has many levels of meaning yet thoroughly entertains with the pleasure of its narrative alone. inventory #2222. Seller Inventory # z2222

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Winners

Publisher: Pantheon Books

Publication Date: 1965

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.