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Julio Florencio Cortázar [1] (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ] ⓘ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator.
Julio Cortazar, Argentine novelist and short-story writer who combined existential questioning with experimental writing techniques in his works. His masterpiece is the antinovel Hopscotch (1963). Learn more about Cortazar’s life and works, including his other notable books.
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Jun 4, 2024 · Julio Cortazar was a prominent figure in the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s, known for his innovative narrative techniques and exploration of complex themes such as identity, time, and reality.
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Cortázar is highly regarded as a master of the fantastical short story, with the collections Bestiario (1951) and Final de Juego (1956) containing many of his best examples in the genre, including the remarkable "Continuidad de los Parques" and "Axolotl," in which the narrator, obsessed with the hopeless and seemingly useless species of axolotls, s...
Presencia(1938)Los reyes(1949)El examen(1950, first published in 1985)Bestiario(1951)Alazraki, Jaime. The Final Island: The Fiction of Julio Cortazar. Norman: University of Oklahmo Press, 1978. ISBN 0806114363Alonso, Carlos. Julio Cortázar : New Readings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 ISBN 0521452104Bloom, Harold. Julio Cortazar: Modern Critical Views. Phildaelphia: Chelsea House, 2005. ISBN 0791081346Stavans, Ilan. Julio Cortázar : A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1996. ISBN 0805782931When Julio Cortázar died of cancer in February 1984 at the age of sixty-nine, the Madrid newspaper El Pais hailed him as one of Latin America’s greatest writers and over two days carried eleven full pages of tributes, reminiscences, and farewells. Though Cortá...
Julio Cortázar (cohr-TAH-sahr), unquestionably one of the pivotal figures in Latin American literature, is a master of the short story, and his novel Hopscotch is widely considered to be one of...
Spanish literary innovator Julio Cortázar played a key role in the growth of twentieth-century Spanish American literature as one of the seminal figures of the “Boom,” a surge of excellence and innovation in Latin American literature during the 1950s and 1960s.
