Autonauts of the Cosmoroute A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseilles

"Anyone who doesn't read Cortaacute;zar is doomed."-Pablo Neruda Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is a love story, an irreverent travelogue of elaborate tales and snapshots detailing Julio Cortaacute;zar and Carol Dunloprs"s thirty-three-day voyage on the Paris-Marseilles freeway in 1982. Uncovering the freewayrs"s hidden underbelly, they push life and literature to surreal extremes. This shot of sun is a satire on modern travel and the great explorers, and an intimate look at one of the greatest literary spirits of our time. Julio Cortaacute;zar (19141984) was a true giant of twentieth-century Latin American literature. He met and married Carol Dunlop in France in 1982. Anne McLean has translated the work of Carmen Martiacute;n Gaite, Javier Cercas, Ignacio Padilla, Orlando Gonzaacute;les Esteva, and Luis Sepuacute;lveda, as well as other works of Julio Cortaacute;zar.

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.