A review by beepbeepbooks
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia by Julio Cortázar

4.0

Really fun. Read some of Cortazar's short stories and they confounded me, not really making me feel good or bad, but like a puzzle that I wanted to figure out that I couldn't. I've also felt that way starting Hopscotch. This text is concise and clear, but does not take itself to seriously, and for a theory geek like me it's funny to see the narrator (a stand in for Cortazar) talk to both serious writers like Susan Sontag and masked marauders like Fantomas. Interspersed with actual comic strips and newspaper clippings, this is almost a primer for neoliberal globalization for the pulp reader. Keep on fightin the good fight Fantomas. But he also can't do it alone.