El Perseguidor

The Pursuer (El Perseguidor) is one of Julio Cortázar’s finest literary achievements and a classic of 20th century literature. With masterly manipulation of existential undercurrents, the story portrays the last days of virtuoso saxophonist Jonny carter, whose life passes by on the edge of lucidity and self destruction. Since its publication in 1959, Cortázar’s tribute to the great Charlie Parker has been greeted with fervor by numerous readers, who have deemed it, along with Rayuela, an experience akin to an initiation. The eminent illustrator José Muñoz has used his extraordinary talent to interpret the intensity of this fiction, where jazz, sleepless nights and Paris of the fifties form the framework for this incomparable story.