Cortázar, Julio
Cortázar, Julio ( 1914 – 84 ),Argentinian novelist and short story writer, born in Brussels. He is best known for his influential experimental novel Rayuela ( 1963 ; Hopscotch, 1966 ), an adventure story whose flexible structure invites the reader to choose the sequence in which to read its chapters, and whether to include a number of expendable chapters. (See interactive fiction .) Deeply influenced by the French surrealists and by English-language writers of the macabre (especially Poe ), Cortázar also published several collections of fantastic short stories, including Bestiario ( 1952 ; Bestiary) and Todos los fuegos el fuego ( 1966 ; All Fires the Fire, 1973 ). His collage-book, La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos ( 1967 ; Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, 1986 ), combines pieces of short fiction with studies of Keats and Shakespeare. He translated ...
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