“A writer plays with words but played seriously, playing in the extent that are available to the endless and infinite possibilities of a language,” said the Argentine Julio Cortázar, born a century ago in Brussels, 26 August 1914.
The author of ‘Hopscotch’ touched born and die in Europe, partly because e is random, at its discretion, did things better than logic. And just this 2014, in addition to celebrating its centenary, the brand three decades of his death in Paris , 12 February 1984 So Argentina pays tribute to the “Year Cortázar 2014 “while elsewhere it also evokes the greatest cornucopia. From the Salon du Livre in Paris, the International Book Fair (FIL) in Guadalajara, tributes, lectures and exhibitions will happen
With the permanent presence of playfulness and humor., Developed a literary work only in the Spanish language. His masterly stories surprised with the introduction of the fantastic in everyday reality. But it was the explosive ‘Hopscotch’ which established him internationally and became one of the insignia of “boom” in Latin America. Cortázar intensely sought a renewal of language and took a blanket of solemnity to the literature. Mexican Carlos Fuentes, his friend and companion “boom”, called it “Bolivar Latin American novel”: “We liberated liberated, with a new language, airy, capable of all adventures”
was four when his family returned to Argentina and soon after, his father left them forever. Childhood and adolescence were spent in Banfield Cortázar, southern suburb of Buenos Aires, with a huge passion for reading and writing. He graduated as a teacher in letters and worked as a teacher in Bolivar and Chivilcoy, villages in the province of Buenos Aires. Later he worked at the University of Cuyo, Mendoza, which he resigned in 1945 to oppose Peronism. One of his first stories, “House Taken Over”, was published in 1946 by none other than Jorge Luis Borges, then deputy editor of the Buenos Aires magazine “Annals of Buenos Aires.”
The writer on the floor of his house. | Sphere
Jazz and boxing in Paris
In a letter, and defined the years prior to his departure for Paris: “From 1946 to 1951, Buenos Aires, solitary and independent life; convinced be an irreducible bachelor friend of very few people, audiophile reader full time, love the cinema, petty bourgeois blind to everything going beyond the sphere of aesthetics. “
Delgado, very tall and youthful appearance, Cortázar always dragged the” r “and was passionate about jazz and boxing. The year of his arrival in the French capital, 1951, Buenos Aires was published in his first volume of short stories, “Bestiary”. In 1953 he married the Argentina play along and both worked as translators at UNESCO. That same decade saw the light of new books of short stories: “End of the Game” (1956) and “Secret Weapons” (1959)
The latter includes “Tracker”, inspired. saxophonist Charlie Parker and probably preferred Cortázar’s story. A kind of hinge, because there is the discovery of others yields. “A little to the character of ‘tracker’ looking in the story, I was also looking at life.”
In 1960 his first novel, “Awards” was published two years Later, the collection of texts “Cronopios and Famas” where cronopios appear “messy and warm these beings” who act rebelliously. 1963 was the turn of “Hopscotch”, starring Horacio Oliveira and La Maga, which allows a linear reading or invites the reader to become an accomplice, jumping from one chapter to another, according to its Board of Directors.
Stock Image, 1938, in Buenos Aires
Political commitment
By then traveled to Cuba, invited as a jury of the Casa de las Americas Prize. There was born his commitment to Latin American matters and a close relationship with the island. Years later visited Nicaragua several times to support the revolution fervently proposed sandinista.Se continue living in their playful and fantastic terrain, but with the adoption of a commitment that is reflected in his literary creation. That Cortázar who left the ivory tower of “pure literature” published including “Book of Manuel” (1973), which the author himself earned “sticks left and right.”
II was part of the Russell Tribunal, which tried and condemned the human rights violations in various Latin American dictatorships. His political commitment made him a cornucopia wanderer, while the Argentina military junta (1976-1983) placed him in the “black list”. Cortázar went from being a volunteer immigrated to an exile.
In 1980 published the stories of “We want both Glenda” and two years later released another volume of stories, “Deshoras”. He worked on “The Motornauts of cosmoway” a curious expedition French motorways, with his second wife, Carol Dunlop Canadian. But Dunlop died at age 36 in 1982 and Cortázar was submerged in grief. It should have ended only book whose copyright spent the Nicaraguan people.
The writer yet completed a longed visit to Buenos Aires in December 1983 and was surprised by the extensive displays of affection in a country recovering democracy. He returned to Paris, where he received care Bernárdez, until his life was turned off at 69 because of leukemia. He was buried next to Dunlop in the cemetery of Montparnasse. However, the machine does not stop the game while Cortázar, as postulated in “Hopscotch”, managing to make the reader follow an accomplice, a comrade of way.
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