Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Julio Cortázar is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. This special volume of the Encontros Collection is the result of interviews conducted between 1970 and 1977, in Paris, Barcelona, and Saignon, by Uruguayan writer and journalist Ernesto González Bermejo. In them, he reveals a Cortázar, at the same time intimate and extremely lucid about the procedures of his writing, in engaging talks about literature and his political commitment in the last years of his life. An indispensable book to get to know this great Argentinean author.