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Literature class : Berkeley, 1980 / Julio Cortázar ; edited by Carles Álvarez Garriga ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cortázar, Julio, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Clases de literatura. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Cortázar, Julio.
- CortaÌzar, Julio.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Spanish American literature--History and criticism.
- Spanish American literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, [2017]
- Summary:
- I want you to know that I'm not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise." So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortazar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These "classes" are as much reflections on Cortazar's own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which he lived. Covering such topics as "the writer's path" ("while my aesthetic world view made me admire writers like Borges, I was able to open my eyes to the language of street slang, lunfardo ... ") and "the fantastic" ("unbeknownst to me, the fantastic had become as acceptable, as possible and real, as the fact of eating soup at eight o'clock in the evening"), Literature Class provides the warm and personal experience of sitting in a room with the great author. As Joaquin Marco stated in El Cultural, "exploring this course is to dive into Cortazar designing his own creations.... Essential for anyone reading or studying Cortazar, cronopio or not!" "
- Contents:
- A writer's paths
- The fantastic short story: time
- The fantastic short story: fate
- The realistic short story
- Musicality and humor in literature
- The ludic in literature: writing hopscotch
- About hopscotch, a manual for Manuel, and Fantomas
- Eroticism and literature.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions paperback original."
- "Originally published in Spanish as Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780811225342
- 0811225348
- OCLC:
- 951925657
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