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Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ] ⓘ) was an Argentine, 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.
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.
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...
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 Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine, naturalised French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
