Julio Cortázar

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Julio Cortázar (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Julio Cortázar’s literary career, which lasted almost forty years, includes—besides his short stories—novels, plays, poetry, translations, and essays of literary criticism. In his essay on short fiction entitled “Algunos aspectos del cuento” (“Some Aspects of the Short Story”), Cortázar studies the varying role of the reader with regard to different literary forms. Cortázar’s first book, Presencia (1938), was a collection of poetry that he published under the pseudonym Julio Denís. He translated authors as diverse as

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