Julio Cortázar is one of the most important exponents of Argentine literature. His pages go beyond places and generations to become a world. Heritage. His work is timeless, a classic in every sense of the word.
Itineraries of a Creator. Belgian by birth, Argentine by choice and a French citizen, Julio Cortázar chose to be from anywhere and everywhere. And this is reflected in his literature, a literature that builds bridges between places, meanings, fantasies and realities. Cortázar, like only a few writers of the 20th century: was able to decipher the mystery of everyday life. His originality lay in having found a new way of conceiving the fantastic. For the writer, reality can change when you least expect it. The transformation is imminent and almost imperceptible. Everything has a hidden disturbing side that threatens us.
The life of an itinerant writer. Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte was born on August 26, 1914 in the south of Brussels as "Result of tourism and diplomacy". His father was an Argentine officer with the Argentine embassy in Belgium, which was occupied by German forces at the time. By the end of the world, the first war, the cortázar descotte family managed to move to switzerland and, some time later, to barcelona. When Cortázar was four years old, his family returned to Argentina and settled in Banfield, a neighborhood in the south of Greater Buenos Aires. During his childhood, the writer suffered from health problems that forced him to spend a lot of time in bed, and reading became his great companion. He would read so much that his doctor, worried about this, suggested that he should stop being in contact with books for a few months and go outside to sunbathe. After completing his studies at the n ° & nbsp; 10 Banfield School, he became a teacher in 1932 and a professor of literature in 1935. He later began studying philosophy. He attended the University of Buenos Aires, but he was forced to give up his studies to help his mother with financial matters. He began teaching in different parts of the country and in 1946, he returned to Buenos Aires and began to publish his works in numerous magazines. Two years later, after working very hard, he graduated as a legal translator of English and French. In 1951, not satisfied with the government of Juan Domingo Perón, he decided to move to Paris for good through a scholarship granted by the French government to work as a translator for UNESCO. In 1959, with the Cuban revolution, Cortázar took a stronger social commitment and supported the struggle. from Latin American countries. On February 12, 1984, he died of leukemia. His remains lie in the Montparnasse cemetery.
The works of an extraordinary genius. Apart from being innovative and original, the work of Julio Cortázar is heterogeneous and prolific. His most notable short stories include: Bestiary (1951), End of the Game (1956), Las Armas Secretas (The Secret Weapons) (1959), All Fires the Fire (1966), and The Pursuer and Other Tales (The Persecutor and Others). stories) (1967) among his novels are: the winners (1960), hopscotch (1963), and a manual for Manuel (1973). And of all his miscellaneous and heterogeneous works, the most important are: Cronopios and Famas (1962), Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (1967), Last Round (The Last Round) (1989), and Save Twilight (1984). If you come to Argentina and enjoy literature, you cannot leave without taking one of Cortázar's works with you. Entering Cortázar's literature in July becomes a unique experience. Reading his work opens worlds and sensibilities, he changes all known things by immersing us in a universe where everything is possible.
Cortázar in Argentina Our Country pays homage to this creative genius throughout its length: in Buenos Aires, the plaza located in Serrano and Honduras is named after him and many public schools in different provinces are also named Julio Cortázar. He also received the honor konex award (1984) for his great contribution to Argentine literature... With these expressions and the passion for reading his works, the Argentines appreciate Cortázar's great magic.
For the writer, reality can change when you least expect it. Transformation is imminent and almost imperceptible. Everything has a secret disturbing side that threatens us.
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar was the epicenter of the Latin American publishing boom of the 1960s. The novel, published in 1963, encompassed all the aesthetic concerns of a period marked by the revolution.
One of hopscotch's great innovations is the table of instructions: "In a certain way, this book is many books, but mainly it is two books" Cortázar affirms in the first lines. The novel unfolds in such a way. That the reader will be able to choose which book to read. One of the options is to read it regularly up to the chapter.