Axolotl | Literary Precedents
An important precursor to Cortazar's novel is The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka's 1915 novella in which a man wakes up one day to find that he has been transformed into an insect.
Cortazar is one of the seminal figures of magic realism. Magic realism is a term applied to the prose fiction of Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges (Cortazar's mentor), Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Juan Rulfo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and many other writers who combine the fantastic with ordinary situations in an attempt to create new ways in which literature can represent life. Their work...
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