Telegram: Autonauts of the Cosmoroute

Book Info

978-1-84659-048-1
Travelogue
19 June 2008
Paperback with flaps
13 x 20 cm
220pp
£9.99

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About the Author

Julio Cortazar was born in Belgium in 1914 to Argentine parents. They returned to Buenos Aires when he was four. One of the true giants of twentieth-century literature, Cortazar was a tireless defender of Latin American self-determination and many of...

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Autonauts of the Cosmoroute

Julio Cortazar

In May 1982, Julio Cortazar set out with his wife Carol Dunlop aboard their VW camper van to explore the uncharted territory of the Paris to Marseilles freeway.

They loaded up with supplies – food, water, wine, cameras, typewriters – and prepared for an arduous voyage of thirty-three days. The rules of the expedition had been set down: they must not leave the motorway, and they must explore each of the rest areas along the way, at a rate of two per day. The result is a brilliantly funny, irreverent travelogue.

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'This touching roadtrip story was translated into English for the first time last year, and was quickly hailed as a classic' Sunday Times...