Literature Class

Author(s): Julio Cortazar

Writing | New Directions

"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 Cortazar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These "classes" are as much reflections on Cortazar'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 Cortazar designing his own creations...Essential for anyone reading or studying Cortazar, cronopio or not!"


Product Information

Julio Cortazar (1914-1984), Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer, was born in Brussels, and moved permanently to France in 1951. Cortazar is now recognized as one of the century's major experimental writers, reflecting the influence of French surrealism, psychoanalysis, and his love of both photography and jazz, along with his strong commitment to revolutionary Latin American politics. Katherine Silver is an award-winning literary translator and the co-director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC).

General Fields

  • : 9780811225342
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : February 2017
  • : 203mm X 127mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Julio Cortazar
  • : Hardback
  • : 320