Julio Cortázar
New Readings

A 1998 collection of essays on the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.

Carlos J. Alonso (Edited by)

9780521174961, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 March 2011

274 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.41 kg

"Alonso (Emory Univ.) takes an innovative approach to the much-studied boom author and prepares the way for a re-evaluation of Cortázar's fiction, poetry, and miscellaneous work...." Choice

The articles gathered within this 1998 book address the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar's oeuvre from a variety of critical positions and focus on several of his multifarious writings: poems, short stories, novels, and miscellanea. The intention has been to provide the space for a reappraisal of Cortázar that will question received notions and assumptions regarding his works, and hence pave the way for an overarching revision of his production and his place in Latin American literature. Although significantly different in their theoretical approach, style, and their point of insertion in Cortázar's oeuvre, the articles provide a radical reassessment of one of the most significant Latin American writers.

Introduction
To burn like this without surcease ... Carlos J. Alonso
Part I. Reading Cortázar Today: 1. Between Utopia and Inferno (Julio Cortázar's version) Ana María Amar Sánchez
2. Comic stripping: Cortázar in the age of mechanical reproduction Jean Franco
3. Cortázar and postmodernity: new interpretive liabilities Neil Larsen
4. Cortázar's closet René Prieto
Part II. Cortázar Read Cortázar: 5. Between reading and repetition (apropos of Cortázar's 62: A Model Kit) Lucille Kerr
6. Cortázar and the idolatry of origins Gustavo Pellón
7. Supposing Morelli had meant to go to Jaipur Andrew Bush
Part III. Reading Politics: 8. Apocalipsis in Solentiname as heterological production Alberto Moreiras
9.The man in the car/In the Trees/Behind the Fence: from Cortázar's Blow-up to Oliver Stone's JFK Frederick Luciani
Part IV. The Ethics of Reading: 10. Pursuing a perfect present Doris Sommer
11. Press clippings and Cortázar's ethics of writing Aníbal González.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]