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Blow-Up est un film britanno-italo-américain de Michelangelo Antonioni, sorti en 1966 et inspiré d'une nouvelle Las babas del diablo (Les fils de la Vierge)<ref>En espagnol (littéralement : "la bave du Diable") comme en français, cette expression désigne les petits filaments où se condense, au matin, la rosée, révélant une sorte de tissage entre les brins d'herbe, les plantes, etc.</ref> de Julio Cortázar.

Le film obtient la Palme d'or au festival de Cannes en 1967.

Cortázar wrote numerous short stories, collected in such volumes as Bestiario (1951), Final del juego (1956), and Las armas secretas (1959). English translations by Paul Blackburn of stories selected from these volumes were published as Blow-up and Other Stories by Pantheon Books (1967). The title of this collection refers to Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup (1967), which was inspired by Cortázar's story Las Babas del Diablo (literally, "The Droolings of the Devil", an Argentine expression for the long threads some spiders and insects leave hanging between the trees). Puerto Rican novelist Giannina Braschi used Cortázar's story as a springboard for the chapter called "Blow-up" in her bilingual novel "Yo-Yo Boing!" (1998) that features scenes with Cortázar's characters La Maga and Rocamadour. Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño claimed Cortázar as a key influence on his novel The Savage Detectives: "To say that I'm permanently indebted to the work of Borges and Cortázar is obvious".<ref>Roberto Bolaño, Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003, trans. Natasha Wimmer, New York: New Directions, 2011, 353.</ref> Cortázar's story "La Autopista del Sur" ("The Southern Thruway") influenced another film of the 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard's Week End (1967).<ref>Jean Franco, "Comic Stripping: Cortázar in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", in Critical Passions: Selected Essays, ed. Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, p. 416.</ref>