The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales | Cortázar, Julio
Cortázar, Julio(1914–84), Argentinian novelist and, like his compatriot Jorge Luis Borges, one of the best authors of short stories in the Spanish language. His sometimes complex writing techniques and expansive use of intertextuality do not result in depoliticized stories. On the contrary, Cortázar's tales tend to carry a political message that may be more or less overt but is always present, conditioned both by his implacable rejection of bourgeois society and his wish to question anything that has been socially sanctioned. Many of Cortázar's stories are fantastic tales, presenting numerous disturbing continuities between one human being and his or her Doppelgänger, between humans and animals, dream and wakefulness, art and reality. ‘La bruja’ (‘The Witch’, 1944), published in the periodical Correo Literario (Literary Post), was Cortázar's first fantastic tale, and...
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