Name: Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 (in English)
Price: 13.97 USD
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Author: Julio Cortázar
ISBN: 9780811225342

portada Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julio Cortázar

Translated by

Katherine Silver

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780811225342

Synopsis "Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 (in English)"

"I want you to know that I'm not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise." So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These "classes" are as much reflections on Cortázar's own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which he lived. Covering such topics as "the writer's path" ("while my aesthetic world view made me admire writers like Borges, I was able to open my eyes to the language of street slang, lunfardo...") and "the fantastic" ("unbeknownst to me, the fantastic had become as acceptable, as possible and real, as the fact of eating soup at eight o'clock in the evening"), Literature Class provides the warm and personal experience of sitting in a room with the great author. As Joaquin Marco stated in El Cultural, "exploring this course is to dive into Cortázar designing his own creations.... Essential for anyone reading or studying Cortázar, cronopio or not!"

Julio Cortázar

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Escritor, profesor, guionista y traductor argentino. Es una de la grandes figuras del «boom» de la literatura hispanoamericana. Cortázar se identifica con el Surrealismo a través del estudio de autores franceses. Destaca por sus misceláneas o del género “almanaque”, donde mezcla narrativa, crónica, poesía y ensayo. Sus obras se reconocen por su alto nivel intelectual y por su forma de tratar los sentimientos y las emociones.

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