Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
by Julio Cortázar
2020-12-30 07:36:21
Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
by Julio Cortázar
2020-12-30 07:36:21
A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar âI want you to know that Iâm not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.â So begins the first of eight classes that the gre...
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A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar âI want you to know that Iâm not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.â So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These âclassesâ are as much reflections on Cortázarâs own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which he lived. Covering such topics as âthe writerâs pathâ (âwhile my aesthetic world view made me admire writers like Borges, I was able to open my eyes to the language of street slang, lunfardoâ¦â) and âthe fantasticâ (âunbeknownst to me, the fantastic had become as acceptable, as possible and real, as the fact of eating soup at eight oâclock in the eveningâ), Literature Class provides the warm and personal experience of sitting in a room with the great author. As Joaquin Marco stated in El Cultural, âexploring this course is to dive into Cortázar designing his own creations.⦠Essential for anyone reading or studying Cortázar, cronopio or not!â
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