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Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ] ⓘ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator.
Julio Cortázar (born August 26, 1914, Brussels, Belgium—died February 12, 1984, Paris, France) was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer who combined existential questioning with experimental writing techniques in his works.
Cortázar fue perseguido durante la dictadura militar ocurrida en Argentina entre 1976 y 1983, lideró las denuncias y acusaciones a los organismos de derechos humanos de los exiliados argentinos en París a la prensa internacional contra la dictadura.
When Julio Cortázar died of cancer in February 1984 at the age of sixty-nine, the Madrid newspaper El Pais hailed him as one of Latin America’s greatest writers and over two days carried eleven full pages of tributes, reminiscences, and farewells. Though Cortá...
Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984) was an Argentine intellectual and author of highly experimental novels and short stories who is considered to be one of the most important authors in the history of South American magic realism.
Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.
Dec 24, 2014 · Julio Cortázar, whose novel, ‘Hopscotch,’ is probably the best Latin American novel of our times, would suggest that any attempt to reduce a work so complex, profound, concrete, so ...
Julio Cortázar (cohr-TAH-sahr), unquestionably one of the pivotal figures in Latin American literature, is a master of the short story, and his novel Hopscotch is widely considered to be one of...
Julio Cortázar has 673 books on Goodreads with 476391 ratings. Julio Cortázar’s most popular book is Hopscotch.
‘Axolotl’ is a short story by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar (1914-84). The story was published in Cortázar’s 1956 collection End of the Game and Other Stories. ‘Axolotl’ is narrated by a lonely man who regularly visits the local zoo, where he becomes fascinated by the axolotls in the aquarium.
