Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French
novelist
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,
short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...
writer,
essayist
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal ...
, and
translator
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. Known as one of the founders of the
Latin American Boom
The Latin American Boom ( es, Boom latinoamericano) was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s when the work of a group of relatively young Latin American novelists became widely circulated in Europe and throughout the world. The Boom is mos ...
, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history,
poetic prose
Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form, while preserving poetic qualities such as heightened imagery, parataxis, and emotional effects.
Characteristics
Prose poetry is written as prose, without the line breaks associat ...
and short story in general and a creator of important novels that inaugurated a new way of making literature in the
Hispanic world
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In a cultural, rather than merely linguistic sense, the notion of "Hispanophone" goes further than the above definition. The Hispanic culture is th ...
by breaking the classical moulds through narratives that escaped
temporal linearity.
He lived his childhood and adolescence and incipient maturity in Argentina and, after the 1950s, in Europe. He lived in Italy, Spain, and in Switzerland. In 1951, he settled in France for more than three decades and composed some of his works there.
Early life
Julio Cortázar was born on 26 August 1914, in
Ixelles
( French, ) or (Dutch, ), is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Brussels' city centre, it is geographically bisected by the City of Brussels. It is also bordered by the muni ...
,
[Cortázar sin barba, by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. Random House Mondadori, Editorial Debate, Madrid, 2004] a municipality of
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, Belgium. According to biographer Miguel Herráez, his parents, Julio José Cortázar and María Herminia Descotte, were Argentine citizens, and his father was attached to the Argentine diplomatic service in Belgium.
At the time of Cortázar's birth, Belgium was occupied by the German troops of
Kaiser
''Kaiser'' is the German word for " emperor" (female Kaiserin). In general, the German title in principle applies to rulers anywhere in the world above the rank of king (''König''). In English, the (untranslated) word ''Kaiser'' is mainly a ...
Wilhelm II
, house = Hohenzollern
, father = Frederick III, German Emperor
, mother = Victoria, Princess Royal
, religion = Lutheranism (Prussian United)
, signature = Wilhelm II, German Emperor Signature-.svg
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor ...
. After German troops arrived in Belgium, Cortázar and his family moved to
Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...
where María Herminia's parents, Victoria Gabel and Louis Descotte (a French National), were waiting in
neutral territory
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. The family group spent the next two years in Switzerland, first in
Zürich
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, then
Geneva
, neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier
, website = https://www.geneve.ch/
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ...
, before moving for a short period to
Barcelona. The Cortázars settled outside of
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South Am ...
by the end of 1919.
Cortázar's father left when Julio was six, and the family had no further contact with him. Cortázar spent most of his childhood in
Banfield, a suburb south of Buenos Aires, with his mother and younger sister. The home in Banfield, with its back yard, was a source of inspiration for some of his stories. Despite this, in a letter to Graciela M. de Solá on 4 December 1963, he described this period of his life as "full of servitude, excessive touchiness, terrible and frequent sadness." He was a sickly child and spent much of his childhood in bed reading. His mother, who
spoke several languages and was a great reader herself, introduced her son to the works of
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;'' Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
, whom Cortázar admired for the rest of his life. In the magazine ''Plural'' (issue 44, Mexico City, May 1975) he wrote: "I spent my childhood in a haze full of goblins and elves, with a sense of space and time that was different from everybody else's".
Education and teaching career
Cortázar obtained a qualification as an elementary school teacher at the age of 18. He would later pursue higher education in
philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some s ...
and
languages
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at the
University of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one of the most prestigi ...
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, but left for financial reasons without receiving a degree. According to biographer
Montes-Bradley, Cortázar taught in at least two high schools in Buenos Aires Province, one in the city of
Chivilcoy
Chivilcoy is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, the head town of the Chivilcoy Partido. It has 64,185 inhabitants according to the .
Tourism
February Carnivals
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, the other in
Bolivar. In 1938, using the pseudonym of Julio Denis, he self-published a volume of
sonnet
A sonnet is a poetic form that originated in the poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sicilian city of Palermo. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's invention, ...
s, ''Presencia,'' which he later repudiated, saying in a 1977 interview for Spanish television that publishing it was his only transgression to the principle of not publishing any books until he was convinced that what was written in them was what he meant to say. In 1944, he became professor of
French literature
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at the
National University of Cuyo
The National University of Cuyo ( es, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, UNCuyo) is the largest center of higher education in the province of Mendoza, Argentina.
As of 2005, the university had 12 academic schools in the city of Mendoza and a delegat ...
in
Mendoza, but owing to political pressure from Peronists, he resigned the position in June 1946. He subsequently worked as a translator and as director of the Cámara Argentina del Libro, a trade organization. In 1949 he published a play, ''Los Reyes'' (''The Kings''), based on the myth of
Theseus
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Theseus is sometimes describe ...
and the
Minotaur
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. In 1980, Cortázar delivered eight lectures at the
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Years in France
In 1951, Cortázar immigrated to France, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life, though he traveled widely. From 1952 onwards, he worked intermittently for
UNESCO
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as a translator. He wrote most of his major works in Paris or in
Saignon in the south of France, where he also maintained a home. In later years he became actively engaged in opposing abuses of human rights in Latin America, and was a supporter of the
Sandinista
The Sandinista National Liberation Front ( es, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas () in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto C� ...
revolution in
Nicaragua
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as well as
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 20 ...
's Cuban revolution and
Salvador Allende
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (, , ; 26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the fi ...
's socialist government in Chile.
Cortázar had three long-term romantic relationships with women. The first was with Aurora Bernárdez, an Argentine translator, whom he married in 1953. They separated in 1968 when he became involved with the Lithuanian writer, editor, translator, and filmmaker
Ugnė Karvelis, whom he never formally married, and who reportedly stimulated Cortázar's interest in politics, although his political sensibilities had already been awakened by a visit to Cuba in 1963, the first of multiple trips that he would make to that country throughout the remainder of his life. In 1981 he married Canadian writer
Carol Dunlop. After Dunlop's death in 1982, Aurora Bernárdez accompanied Cortázar during his final illness and, in accordance with his longstanding wishes, inherited the rights to all his works.
Death
Cortázar died in Paris in 1984, and is interred in the
cimetière du Montparnasse
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. The cause of his death was reported to be
leukemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ...
, though some sources state that he died from AIDS as a result of receiving a blood transfusion.
Works
Cortázar wrote numerous short stories, collected in such volumes as ''
Bestiario'' (1951), ''
Final del juego'' (1956), and ''
Las armas secretas'' (1959). In 1967, English translations by
Paul Blackburn of stories selected from these volumes were published by
Pantheon Books
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as ''
End of the Game and Other Stories
''Blow-Up and Other Stories'' is a collection of short stories, selected from the short fiction of the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar.This article refers to the 1967, 1963 Random House Copyrighted publication of the book by this name, as tran ...
''; it was later re-titled ''Blow-up and Other Stories''. Cortázar published four novels during his lifetime: ''
Los premios'' (''The Winners'', 1960), ''
Hopscotch
Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. It is a c ...
'' (''Rayuela'', 1963), ''
62: A Model Kit'' (''62 Modelo para Armar'', 1968), and ''
Libro de Manuel'' (''A Manual for Manuel'', 1973). Except for ''
Los premios'', which was translated by Elaine Kerrigan, these novels have been translated into English by
Gregory Rabassa
Gregory Rabassa, ComM (March 9, 1922 – June 13, 2016), was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.
Life and career
Rabassa was born in Yonkers, ...
. Two other novels, ''El examen'' and ''Divertimento,'' though written before 1960, only appeared posthumously.
The open-ended structure of ''Hopscotch'', which invites the reader to choose between a linear and a non-linear mode of reading, has been praised by other
Latin American
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writers, including
José Lezama Lima
José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 – August 9, 1976) was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Cuban and Latin American literature. His novel ''Paradiso'' is one of ...
,
Giannina Braschi
Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include '' Empire of Dreams'' (1988), '' Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998) ''and United States of Banana'' (2011).
Braschi writes cross-g ...
,
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are '' The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), '' The Old Gringo'' (1985) and ''Christop ...
,
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered on ...
, and
Mario Vargas Llosa
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. Cortázar's use of interior monologue and
stream of consciousness
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owes much to
James Joyce
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and other modernists, but his main influences were
Surrealism
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, the French
Nouveau roman and the improvisatory
aesthetic
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of
jazz
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. This last interest is reflected in the notable story "El perseguidor" ("The Pursuer"), which Cortázar based on the life of the
bebop
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saxophonist
Charlie Parker
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.
Cortázar also published poetry, drama, and various works of non-fiction. In the 1960s, working with the artist José Silva, he created two almanac-books or ''libros-almanaque,'' ''La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos'' and ''Último Round,'' which combined various texts written by Cortázar with photographs, engravings, and other illustrations, in the manner of the ''almanaques del mensajero'' that had been widely circulated in rural Argentina during his childhood. One of his last works was a collaboration with Carol Dunlop, ''
The Autonauts of the Cosmoroute'', which relates, partly in mock-heroic style, the couple's extended expedition along the autoroute from Paris to
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...
in a
Volkswagen
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camper nicknamed Fafner. As a translator, he completed Spanish-language renderings of ''
Robinson Crusoe
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'',
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar (, , ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the '' Prix Fe ...
's novel ''
Mémoires d'Hadrien'', and the complete prose works of
Edgar Allan Poe
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.
Influence and legacy
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...
's film ''
Blowup
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'' (1966) was inspired by Cortázar's story "Las babas del diablo", which in turn was based on a photograph taken by Chilean photographer
Sergio Larraín during a shoot outside of
Notre Dame Cathedral
Notre-Dame de Paris (; meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the Seine River), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral, dedicated to the ...
in Paris. Cortázar's story "La autopista del sur" ("The Southern Thruway") influenced another film of the 1960s,
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran� ...
's ''
Week End'' (1967). The filmmaker
Manuel Antín
Manuel Antín (born February 27, 1926) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.
Manuel Antín was born in Las Palmas, Chaco Province, in 1926. He first wrote for Argentine television in 1956 and made his directorial debut in 1962 with hi ...
has directed three films based on Cortázar stories, ''Cartas de mamá'', ''Circe'' and ''Intimidad de los parques''.
Chilean novelist
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' ('' The Savage Detectives ...
cited Cortázar as a key influence on his novel ''
The Savage Detectives'': "To say that I'm permanently indebted to the work of
Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...
and Cortázar is obvious."
Puerto Rican novelist
Giannina Braschi
Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include '' Empire of Dreams'' (1988), '' Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998) ''and United States of Banana'' (2011).
Braschi writes cross-g ...
used Cortázar's story "Las babas del diablo" as a springboard for the chapter called "Blow-up" in her bilingual novel ''
Yo-Yo Boing!
''Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998) is a postmodern novel in English, Spanish, and Spanglish by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi. The cross-genre work is a structural hybrid of poetry, political philosophy, musical, manifesto, treatise, memoir, and d ...
'' (1998), which features scenes with Cortázar's characters La Maga and Rocamadour. Cortázar is mentioned and spoken highly of in
Rabih Alameddine's 1998 novel, ''
Koolaids: The Art of War''.
North American novelist
Deena Metzger cites Cortázar as co-author of her novel ''Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn,'' written twenty years after his death.
In
Buenos Aires
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, a school, a public library, and a square in the
Palermo
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neighborhood carry Cortázar's name.
Bibliography
Novels
*''Divertimento'' (1949, first published in 1986)
*''El examen'' ''(Final Exam)'' (1950, first published in 1985)
*''
Los premios'' ''(The Winners)'' (1960)
*''
Rayuela'' ''(Hopscotch)'' (1963)
*''
62/modelo para armar'' ''(62: A Model Kit)'' (1968)
*''
Libro de Manuel'' ''(A Manual for Manuel)'' (1973)
Short story collections
*''
Bestiario'' (1951)
*''
Final del juego'' ''(End of the Game)'' (1956)
*''
Las armas secretas'' (1959)
*''
Historias de cronopios y de famas
''Historias'' is the fifth studio album released on April 19, 1994 by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Jason Birchmeier awarded the album 4.5 stars: "If you were to pick only one Arjona's album ...
'' ''(Cronopios and Famas)'' (1962)
*''
Todos los fuegos el fuego'' ''(All Fires the Fire)'' (1966)
*''
Blow-up and Other Stories'' (1968); a compilation of stories from ''Bestiario'', ''Final del juego'' and ''Las armas secretas'', in an English-language translation.
*''
Octaedro'' (1974)
*''Alguien que anda por ahí'' (1977)
*''Un tal Lucas'' ''(A Certain Lucas)'' (1979)
*''Queremos tanto a Glenda'' ''(We Love Glenda So Much)'' (1980)
*''Deshoras'' ''(Unreasonable Hours)'' (1982)
Poetry
*''Presencia'' ''(Presence)'' (1938)
*''Los reyes'' ''(The Kings)'' (1949)
*''Salvo el crepúsculo'' ''(Save Twilight)'' (1997; expanded edition, City Lights, 2016)
Other works
*''
La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos'' ''(Around the Day in Eighty Worlds)'' (1967)
*''
Último round'' ''(Last Round)'' (1969)
*''
Prosa del Observatorio'' ''(From the Observatory)'' (1972)
*''Territorios'' ''(Territories)'' (1978)
*''La Puñalada/ El tango de la vuelta ''(Stab)'' (1979) (with
Pat Andrea)
*''
Los autonautas de la cosmopista'' ''(Autonauts of the Cosmoroute)'' (1983)
*''Nicaragua tan violentamente dulce'' ''(Nicaragua, So Violently Sweet)'' (1983)
*''Julio Cortazar: Al Termino del Polvo y el Sudor'' (Biblioteca de Marcha, Montevideo, 1987) – Essays by and about Julio Cortazar.
*''Diario de Andrés Fava'' ''(Diary of Andrés Fava)'' (1995), companion book to ''El examen''.
*''Adiós Robinson'' ''(Goodbye, Robinson)'' (1995), radio text.
*''Imagen de John Keats'' ''(Image of John Keats)'' (1996)
*''Cartas'' ''(Letters)'' (Three volumes, 2000; expanded version in five volumes, 2012)
*''Papeles inesperados'' ''(Unexpected Papers)'' (2009)
*''Cartas a los Jonquières'' ''(Letters to the Jonquières)'' (2010)
*''Clases de literatura'' ''(Literature Class)'' (2013)
Graphic novel
*''
Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales'' ''(Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires)'' (1975)
Recording from the Library of Congress
Julio Cortazar reading from his own work
See also
*
État second
*
Sophie Bohdan
Further reading
;English
* ''Julio Cortázar (Modern Critical Views)''. Bloom, Harold, 2005
*
* ''Julio Cortázar (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers)''. Bloom, Harold, 2004
*
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* ''Questions of the Liminal in the Fiction of Julio Cortázar''. Moran, Dominic, 2000
* ''Critical Essays on Julio Cortázar''. Alazraki, Jaime, 1999
*
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* ''The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac, Beckett, and Cortázar''. Axelrod, Mark, 1992
* ''Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris With Uncommon Writers''. Weiss, Jason, 1991
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;Spanish
* ''Y el hombre dio su vuelta en ochenta mundos... (Homenaje a Julio Cortázar) (1914-2014)'',
Luis Aguilar-Monsalve, (2015)
* ''Julio Cortázar. Una biografía revisada''. Miguel Herráez, 2011
* ''Discurso del Oso''. children's book illustrated by Emilio Urberuaga, Libros del Zorro Rojo, 2008
*
* ''Imagen de Julio Cortázar''. Claudio Eduardo Martyniuk, 2004
* ''Julio Cortázar desde tres perspectivas''. Luisa Valenzuela, 2002
* ''Otra flor amarilla: antología: homenaje a Julio Cortázar''. Universidad de Guadalajara, 2002
* ''Julio Cortázar''.
Cristina Peri Rossi, 2000
* ''Julio Cortázar''. Alberto Cousté, 2001
* ''Julio Cortázar. La biografía''. Mario Goloboff, 1998
* ''La mirada recíproca: estudios sobre los últimos cuentos de Julio Cortázar''. Peter Fröhlicher, 1995
* ''Hacia Cortázar: aproximaciones a su obra''. Jaime Alazraki, 1994
* ''Julio Cortázar: mundos y modos''. Saúl Yurkiévich, 1994
* ''Tiempo sagrado y tiempo profano en Borges y Cortázar''. Zheyla Henriksen, 1992
* ''Cortázar: el romántico en su observatorio''. Rosario Ferré, 1991
* ''Lo neofantástico en Julio Cortázar''. Julia G Cruz, 1988
* ''Los Ochenta mundos de Cortázar: ensayos''. Fernando Burgos, 1987
* ''En busca del unicornio: los cuentos de Julio Cortázar''. Jaime Alazraki, 1983
* ''Teoría y práctica del cuento en los relatos de Cortázar''. Carmen de Mora Valcárcel, 1982
* ''Julio Cortázar''. Pedro Lastra, 1981
* ''Cortázar: metafísica y erotismo''. Antonio Planells, 1979
* ''Es Julio Cortázar un surrealista?''. Evelyn Picon Garfield, 1975
* '' Estudios sobre los cuentos de Julio Cortázar''. David Lagmanovich, 1975
* ''Cortázar y Carpentier''.
Mercedes Rein, 1974
* ''Los mundos de Julio Cortázar''. Malva E Filer, 1970
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Filmography
* ''La Cifra Impar'', 1960. Feature film by
Manuel Antín
Manuel Antín (born February 27, 1926) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.
Manuel Antín was born in Las Palmas, Chaco Province, in 1926. He first wrote for Argentine television in 1956 and made his directorial debut in 1962 with hi ...
, based on "Letters from Mother".
* ''Circe'', 1963. Feature film by Manuel Antín, based on "Circe". Script by Manuel Antin and Julio Cortázar.
* ''El Perseguidor'', 1963. Feature film by Osias Wilenski, based on "El perseguidor".
* ''Intimidad de los Parques'', 1965. Feature film by Manuel Antín.
* ''Blow Up'', 1966. Feature film by Michelangelo Antonioni, based on "Las Babas del diablo".
* ''Cortázar'', 1994. Documentary directed by Tristán Bauer.
* ''Cortázar, apuntes para un documental'', documentary.
Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Director), Soledad Liendo (Producer). Theatrical release 2002. DVD Release 2007.
* , 2005. Short movie based on Julio Cortázar's short story "Graffiti". Directed by Pako González.
* ''Graffiti'', 2006. Short movie based on Julio Cortázar's short story "Graffiti". Directed by Vano Burdul
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:es:Mentiras piadosas (película de 2009), Mentiras Piadosas" (released in English as ''Made Up Memories''), 2009. Feature film by Diego Sabanés, based on the short-story "The Health of the Sick" and other short stories by Julio Cortázar.
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References
External links
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Julio Cortázar Collection (Finding Aid)– Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division
Julio Cortázar Literary Manuscripts, 1943-1982- Benson Latin American Collection
Julio Cortázar: An Argentinean Master of Anti-novel and Experimental LiteratureBooks and texts written by Julio CortázarA translated excerpt from ''Prose from the Observatory''Julio Cortázar Artist bio and exhibitions on ArtDiscover
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The Library of Julio CortázarVirtual visit to his private library.(in English and Spanish)
Julio Cortazar recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on November 20, 1975
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