The latest biography of Julio Cortazar , edited by Edhasa and written by Miguel Dalmau , has finally published, a year later than planned, despite the opposition heirs to use quotations from the work of the Argentine author.
Dalmau told today, introducing his work, that this setback had power to do now a “brave and well documented,” but very few quotations from Cortazar without pictures, biography because, although the right to appointment in Spain is regulated, limited to the maximum and represent less than 5 percent of it.
To write the book, 600 pages, has employed three years, but according to the author, has been building a lifetime, because in adolescence had a great attraction for the work deCortázar up the point that at twenty came to correspond, revealed today.
The biography, he explained, “discusses his attitude and commitment”, but the author has not been carried away “by data” and clarifies that age and experience is what helped him to write and address unknown aspects of Cortazar, “a figure that has been overly protected”.
The book tells of the pathological dependence that had the matriarchal structure where he lived with a mother who was illegitimate, a schizophrenic sister who had a problem of incest, a grandmother and an aunt, who soon had to maintain.
Cortazar , she says Dalmau, not stepped college because He could not pay, he taught in the provinces and for years all I did was send money to these women, “who had him as a kidnapping that lasted up to a month before his death because kept sending heels from Switzerland “.
” It is a slave who has not broken the umbilical cord is blocked by taboos of the time, family and social, “said Dalmau, and marries a woman Aurora Bernardez, prolonging Argentina matrialcal structure.
It addresses the relationship with Aurora, which definitely considered Maga hopscotch, while acknowledging that not speak to her before writing the play, because it was ” snake charming, so open, so kind, so educated and so much knowledge … that was pure dynamite and could have contaminated “.
remarks that she inspired the character and Julio Cortazar was five years chasing her without her would listen. Is convinced, moreover, that, although officially he settled in Paris for its opposition to Peronism, “so did harassed by pumpkins Aurora”.
With regard to the innovations introduced by the biography says has ordered tracks others left or unwilling to take, and it is the first time a door is opened, it becomes a flashlight in certain aspects of his life “and constellations behind are”.
“The important thing is not to know that his mother was not legitimate daughter, but what was important in his life, and that’s a star, and there are many, and that constellation is displayed on the other side of the door “.
Sets Cortazar as” a giant with feet of clay, he had to overcome many demons, and with zero vanity. A handsome man with exceptional hook “and a man with charm in 60-70 years was like a guru, someone who could act as a guide.
Dalmau also addresses how, despite being initially timid, becomes greater hunter addicted to sex and women.
For his biographer, passes at 60 what should have happened at 20, with a “hunting” infinite because it had a chorus of ladies behind, and highlights just saturated, “what creates many problems. “
Miguel Dalmau brings possible diagnoses about their health and that it seems clear that a syndrome and should have a tumor in a gland, which eventually operated and subjected to a major hormonal treatment of testosterone makes beard until he comes to the amazement of his family “in the moment of greatest fame as a writer and maximum spell on his audience.”
On his death in 1984, does not rule out biographer it was because of AIDS, because the symptoms I had, then unknown, some spots were added in the language, “although it is quite clear that it would be by a contaminated blood transfusion following a gastric hemorrhage had in 1982.” .
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