Cortázar, Julio (Vol. 5) - Cortázar, Julio 1914–
Cortázar, Julio 1914–
Cortázar is an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and translator, now living in Paris, whose elaborately experimental fantasies have been compared with work by Borges, Kafka, and Joyce. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-22.)
Many of the short stories of the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar portray individuals who are afflicted by delusions, hallucinations, and nightmares. These vivid and powerful fantasies are often expressive of the characters' deep alienation, guilt, or fear. In Cortázar's short fiction, the interplay between fantasy and reality is of two different patterns. At times the delusions of the characters act as a positive force, offering consolation and even ironic fulfillment for persons who in reality lead lonely and frustrated lives. Some of the characters nurture their private fantasy worlds through which they reduce their anguish and guilt. In other stories fantasy is afflictive and...
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