We Love Glenda So Much

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Entering—in these ten stories—the mysterious, passionate, and apocalyptic world of Julio Cortázar, we are made suddenly and sometimes terrifyingly aware of the unexploded mines beneath the surface of our conscious lives.
In the title story a group of fans of the legendary movie star Glenda Garson meet at showings of her films and eventually become an informal cadre of the fanatically devoted. ("There was nothing of a club about it, we simply loved Glenda Garson, and that was enough to set us apart from those who only admired her.") Gradually, hesitantly at first, they dare to acknowledge to one another that they find some of the scenes in some of her films somewhat less than perfect. So they devise an audacious plan to get hold of and re-edit every print of every film she ever made. "We had problems with The Uses of Elegance because people in the oil-producing emirates owned copies for their personal enjoyment and extraordinary maneuvers and procedures were necessary in order to... Tovább

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Entering—in these ten stories—the mysterious, passionate, and apocalyptic world of Julio Cortázar, we are made suddenly and sometimes terrifyingly aware of the unexploded mines beneath the surface of our conscious lives.
In the title story a group of fans of the legendary movie star Glenda Garson meet at showings of her films and eventually become an informal cadre of the fanatically devoted. ("There was nothing of a club about it, we simply loved Glenda Garson, and that was enough to set us apart from those who only admired her.") Gradually, hesitantly at first, they dare to acknowledge to one another that they find some of the scenes in some of her films somewhat less than perfect. So they devise an audacious plan to get hold of and re-edit every print of every film she ever made. "We had problems with The Uses of Elegance because people in the oil-producing emirates owned copies for their personal enjoyment and extraordinary maneuvers and procedures were necessary in order to steal them (there's no reason to use any other word ). . . ." But finally it's done, and nothing can mar the Garson oeuvre . . . until she announces unexpectedly that she is going to come out of retirement and make another film. Then, together the group decides what they must do. "We loved Glenda so much that we would offer her one last inviolable perfection. On the untouchable heights to which we had raised her in exaltation, we would save her from the fall. . . ."
In "Clone" a modern madrigal group—subtle, sophisticated, gifted men and women—touring Latin America performing the works of the Renaissance composer Gesualdo find themselves re-enacting scenes from his life: his wife's infidelities and his own abrupt and tragic response----
And in story after story a violent and unsettling suspense prevails as intense emotional conflict erupts from cerebral, intellectual play. Locales range from the Buenos Aires subway to a luxurious resort hotel on Martinique; the characters from an English college girl
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