Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires
The first translation of Julio Cort zar's genre-jumping meta-comic/novella, featuring Cort zar himself, Susan Sontag, and Octavio Paz in a race to prevent international bibliocide.Octavio Paz: "If you…
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The first translation of Julio Cort zar's genre-jumping meta-comic/novella, featuring Cort zar himself, Susan Sontag, and Octavio Paz in a race to prevent international bibliocide.Octavio Paz: "If you love art, do something, Fantomas "Fantomas: "I will, you can depend on it."First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cort zar'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 Fantomas: The Elegant Menace. With his characteristic narrative inventiveness, Cort zar offers a quixotic meta-comic/novella that challenges not only the form of the novel but its political weight in contemporary cultural life.Needing something to read on the