The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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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