Understanding Julio Cortazar

Author : Peter Standish
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033902
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Julio Cortázar written by Peter Standish and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the twentieth-century Argentine writer Cortazar is analyzed by Standish (foreign languages and literature, East Carolina U., Greenville), who writes with the assurance of his long familiarity with the author's work. Of the eight chapters, the first is devoted to Cortazar's life, the remainder to his writing, which is divided chronologically and by genre. Cortazar's own writing on literature and his controversial political identity each merit separate chapters. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Julio Cortázar
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225356
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 written by Julio Cortázar and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar “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 Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’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 Cortázar designing his own creations.… Essential for anyone reading or studying Cortázar, cronopio or not!”

Author : Julio Cortázar
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101870141
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hopscotch written by Julio Cortázar and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.

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Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Author : Julio Cortázar
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217521
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Exam written by Julio Cortázar and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. "Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed."--Pablo Neruda

Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0374253730
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabers and Utopias written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate’s conception of Latin America, past, present, and future Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dangers and possibilities that face this diverse set of countries. Now this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms and meditations. Reflecting the intellectual development of the writer himself, these essays distill the great events of Latin America’s recent history, analyze political groups like FARC and Sendero Luminoso, and evaluate the legacies of infamous leaders such as Papa Doc Duvalier and Fidel Castro. Arranged by theme, they trace Vargas Llosa’s unwavering demand for freedom, his embrace of and disenchantment with revolutions, and his critique of nationalism, populism, indigenism, and corruption. From the discovery of liberal ideas to a defense of democracy, buoyed by a passionate invocation of Latin American literature and art, Sabers and Utopias is a monumental collection from one of our most important writers. Uncompromising and adamantly optimistic, these social and political essays are a paean to thoughtful engagement and a brave indictment of the discrimination and fear that can divide a society.

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522861857
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeding on Dreams written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet's death squads, to safe houses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, his childhood home. The toll on Dorfman's wife and two sons, the 'earthquake of language' that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning of his allegiance to past and party - all these crucibles of a life in exile are revealed with wry and startling honesty. Feeding on Dreams is a passionate reminder that 'we are all exiles', that we are all 'threatened with annihilation if we do not find and celebrate the refuge of common humanity', as Dorfman did during his 'decades of loss and resurrection'.

Author : Carlos J. Alonso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521452106
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julio Cortázar written by Carlos J. Alonso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1998 collection of essays on the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410353885
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Julio Cortazar
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872863330
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Save Twilight written by Julio Cortazar and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art, and history, and most of his own emotional geography, Cortazar's poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.