Cortázar, Julio (Vol. 3) - Cortázar, Julio 1914–
Cortázar, Julio 1914–
Cortázar is a Belgian-born Argentine novelist and short story writer now living in Paris. Best known for Hopscotch, he writes fantastical fiction often compared to work by Kafka and Borges. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-22.)
The first fifty-six chapters of Cortázar's novel [Hopscotch] tell an ordinary enough story. The remaining "expendable chapters," "Capítulos prescindibles," are all made up of quotations of various lengths and drawn from a wide variety of sources. There are, for example, lyrics from American jazz songs, or blues, an Associated Press account of an electric chair execution, a passage from Clarence Darrow's Defense of Leopold and Loeb, phrases and passages taken from Antonin Artaud, Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke, from the texts of Zen Buddhism, from Meister Eckhart, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Georges Bataille, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Anaïs Nin,...
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