Julio Cortázar / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cortázar, Julio--Criticism and interpretation.

Cortázar, Julio.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 291 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

The author of Hopscotch and End of the Game, Julio Cortazar is identified as one of the leading Spanish American writers of the 20th century. Born in Brussels in 1914, Cortazar grew up in Argentina, working as a teacher and translator while developing his distinctive writing style. An admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and Bop jazz, Cortazar used literature as a form of experimentation, and a way to express his own political views. Critics have noted that Cortazar's writing is marked by a quest for authenticity, and through his writing the careful reader can find glimpses of the problems and questions with which he struggled.

Contents:

Toward the last square of the hopscotch / Jaime Alazraki

Los reyes : Cortázar's mythology of writing / Roberto González Echevarría

Libro de Manuel / Steven Boldy

Woman as Circe the Magician / Ana Hernández del Castillo

An interpretation of Rayuela based on the character web / Gordana Yovanovich

Grammar trouble : Cortázar's critique of competence / Doris Sommer

Cortázar : on critics and interpretation / Isabel Alvarez Borland

Justice to Julio Cortázar / Ilan Stavans

The trumpet of deyá / Mario Vargas Llosa

Betwixt reading and repetition (apropos of Cortázar's 62: a model kit) / Lucille Kerr

"Press clippings" and Cortázar's ethics of writing / Aníbal González.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index.

ISBN:

0791081346

OCLC:

56950862