{"product_id":"fantomas-versus-the-multinational-vampires-julio-cortazar-9781584351344","title":"Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first translation of Julio Cort痙ar's genre-jumping meta-comic\/novella, featuring Cort痙ar himself, Susan Sontag, and Octavio Paz in a race to prevent international bibliocide.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctavio Paz: \"If you love art, do something, Fantomas!\"\u003cbr\u003eFantomas: \"I will, you can depend on it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, \u003ci\u003eFantomas versus the Multinational Vampires\u003c\/i\u003e is Julio Cort痙ar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in Latin America and his cameo appearance in issue number 201 of the Mexican comic book series \u003ci\u003eFantomas: The Elegant Menace\u003c\/i\u003e. With his characteristic narrative inventiveness, Cort痙ar offers a quixotic meta-comic\/novella that challenges not only the form of the novel but its political weight in contemporary cultural life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeeding something to read on the train from Brussels (where he had attended the ineffectual tribunal meeting), our hero (Julio Cort痙ar) picks up the latest issue of the \u003ci\u003eFantomas\u003c\/i\u003e comic. He grows increasingly absorbed by the comic book's tale of bibliocide (a sinister bibliophobic plot to obliterate every book from the archives of humanity), especially when he sees the character Fantomas embark upon a series of telephone conversations with literary figures, starting with \"The Great Argentine Writer\" himself, Julio Cort痙ar (and also including Octavio Paz and a tough-talking Susan Sontag). Soon, Cort痙ar begins to erase the thin line between real-life atrocities and fictional mayhem in an attempt to bring attention to the human rights violations taking place with impunity in the country from which he was exiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julio Cort痙ar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1584351349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781584351344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.21h x 5.57w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Best Translated Book Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/18\/2014","brand":"Julio Cort痙ar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989330526463,"sku":"9781584351344","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85e0e578-f864-44cd-8721-4d004cd6fb20.jpg?v=1683298902","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fantomas-versus-the-multinational-vampires-julio-cortazar-9781584351344","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}