The fourth volume of the Collected Works of the Argentine writer Julio Cortazar (1914-1984) includes works little known in Russia. These are plays, stories from early books or not included in collections, poems and essays. The reader is presented with a completely different Cortazar – an absurdist playwright, a master of black humor, a piercing lyricist and a passionate publicist. A significant portion of the texts have been translated into Russian for the first time especially for this edition.