Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseilles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780979333002)

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is a travelogue, a love story, an irreverent collection of visual and verbal snapshots. In May 1982, Julio Cort zar and Carol Dunlop climbed aboard Fafner, their VW camper van, and embarked on an exploration of the uncharted territory of the Paris-Marseilles freeway. It was a route they d covered before, usually in about ten hours, but his time they loaded up with supplies and prepared for an ardous voyage of thirty-three days without leaving the autoroute. Along the way they would uncover the hidden side of the freeway and record The trip's vital minutiae with light-hearted abandon. At roadside rest areas, armed with typewriters, cameras, and mutual affection, the authors composed this book.

Author: Julio Cortazar, Carol Dunlop
ISBN-10: 0979333008
ISBN-13: 9780979333002
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2007
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.90w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2007 pg. 1029
Booklist 12/01/2007 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 01/20/2008 pg. 15
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 50
Library Journal 02/11/2008

About the Author
Julio Cortázar was born in Brussels in 1914 and grew up on the outskirts of Bueno Aires. His other works include Diary of Andrés Fava, Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, All Fires the Fire, We Love Glenda So Much, A Certain Lucas, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds and Cronopios and Famas. He died in Paris in 1984.

Anne McLean has translated works by Javier Cercas, Evelio Rosero, Juan Gabriel Vázquez, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Carmen Martín Gaite, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Héctor Abad, as well as Diary of Andrés Fava and From the Observatory by Julio Cortázar. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.