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Julio Cortázar (1914–1984)

Author of Hopscotch

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About the Author

Julio Cortazar is an Argentine poet, short story writer, and translator, whose pseudonym is Julio Denis. He was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1914. In 1918, he moved with his parents to their native Argentina. He taught high school and later French literature at the University of Cuyo, resigning show more after participating in demonstrations against Argentine President Juan Peron. He worked for a Buenos Aires publishing company and also earned a degree as a translator. Cortazar is part of the "boom" of excellence in Latin American letters in the 1950s and 1960s. He combines fantastic plots with commonplace events and characters, and looks for new ways for literature to represent life. His first novel, The Winners, tells the story of passengers on a luxury liner who are restricted to a certain area of the ship and forbidden to communicate with the crew. He explores the ways passengers react. Hopscotch has a complex narrative structure with 165 chapters that can be read in at least two logical sequences to create variations. A Change of Light and Other Stories is a short story collection dealing with themes ranging from political oppression to fantasy. We Love Glenda So Much is about a fan club murder of their favorite actress whose films do not meet their standards. A Certain Lucas is comprised of three sections of short observations, discussing the nature of reality, the exploration of literary form, and search for new ways to view the world. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series

Works by Julio Cortázar

Hopscotch (1963) — Author — 5,142 copies
Cronopios and Famas (1962) 1,461 copies
Blow-up and Other Stories (1967) 1,394 copies
Bestiary (1951) 862 copies
All Fires the Fire (1973) 769 copies
Las armas secretas (1959) 651 copies
62: A Model Kit (1968) 583 copies
The Winners (1960) 582 copies
Cuentos Completos 1 (1994) 512 copies
End of the Game (1956) 368 copies
The Pursuer (1966) 331 copies
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (1982) 323 copies
Cuentos Completos 2 (1998) 306 copies
A Manual for Manuel (1973) 298 copies
We Love Glenda So Much (1980) 273 copies
A Certain Lucas (1979) 243 copies
Octaedro (1974) 201 copies
Alguien que anda por ahí (1977) 151 copies
Final Exam (1986) 149 copies
Papeles inesperados (2000) 119 copies
Diary of Andres Fava (1995) 97 copies
Nicaraguan Sketches (1984) 93 copies
Ultimo round (1969) 89 copies
Los relatos, 1: Ritos (1976) 88 copies
Ceremonias (1968) 87 copies
Cuentos Completos 3 (2004) 76 copies
Los reyes (1949) 66 copies
Obras completas (1963) 61 copies
Divertimento (1986) 53 copies
Cuentos (1985) 53 copies
Reunión y otros relatos (1983) 47 copies
La otra orilla (1705) 39 copies
Cortázar de la A a la Z (2014) 38 copies
Discurso del oso (2008) 26 copies
I racconti (1997) 23 copies
Los relatos (1974) 20 copies
Opowiadania zebrane (2003) 20 copies
Axolotl (2009) 15 copies
La casilla de los Morelli (1981) 15 copies
Samlade noveller. 2 (2007) 13 copies
Gîtes (1968) 12 copies
Circe en andere verhalen (1971) 12 copies
Obras completas I. Cuentos (2003) 11 copies
Samlade noveller. 1 (2007) 11 copies
Territorios (1978) 10 copies
Silvalandia (1977) 10 copies
Cartas 1964-1968 (2000) 9 copies
Prosa del observatorio (2017) 9 copies
Reunión (2007) 9 copies
Cartas 4 (1969-1976) (2012) 9 copies
Nouvelles, 1945-1982 (1993) 8 copies
Alto el Perú (1984) 8 copies
Antología (1978) 8 copies
Pameos y meopas (2017) 8 copies
Examen, El (1901) 8 copies
Cartas de mamá (1996) 8 copies
Cartas 1969-1983 (2000) 7 copies
Correspondencia (2009) 7 copies
Cartas 5 (1977-1984) (2012) 7 copies
Casa tomada (1994) 7 copies
Verzamelde verhalen (1995) 7 copies
Manual de cronopios (1992) 7 copies
Opowiadania (1996) 7 copies
La racine de l'Ombù (2004) 6 copies
Ayakizlerinde Adimlar (2015) 6 copies
Cartas 1937-1963 (2000) 6 copies
Relatos 4 (2012) 6 copies
Deshoras (2020) 6 copies
L'inseguitore (2016) 5 copies
Letters from Mom (2022) 5 copies
Una Flor Amarilla (1974) 5 copies
Último Round (Tomo, #2) (2009) 5 copies
Salarelvad (2011) 5 copies
NARRACIONES Y POEMAS (2006) 5 copies
Disincontri (2019) 5 copies
Hayvan Hikayeleri (2019) 4 copies
Mängu lõpp (2016) 4 copies
Opowiadania zebrane. T. 1 (1999) 4 copies
Cinayeti Gordum (2007) 4 copies
Les Armes secrètes (1995) 4 copies
Los premios (2014) 4 copies
Hinkeleg (2017) 4 copies
Şotron (2011) 4 copies
Textos políticos (1985) 3 copies
Vita di Edgar Allan Poe (2004) 3 copies
Le ragioni della collera (1995) 3 copies
Opowiadania zebrane. T. 2 (1999) 3 copies
Samlade noveller (Box) (2010) 3 copies
Die Erzählungen, 4 Bde. (1998) 3 copies
Andres Fava'nin Güncesi (2018) 3 copies
Cuentos Sorprendentes (1996) 3 copies
Keksumäng (2016) 3 copies
Cuentos de pel©Ưcula (2007) 3 copies
Poesía y poética (2005) 2 copies
Niespodziewane stronice (2013) 2 copies
Animalia (2005) 2 copies
Um certo Lucas 2 copies
Játékok (2005) 2 copies
La isla final (1983) 2 copies
Último round (2009) 2 copies
Soupe à la Sainte-Façon (1991) 2 copies
Ötekinin Rüyasi (2000) 2 copies
Os prêmios 2 copies
Del racconto e dintorni (2009) 2 copies
Passager (2004) 2 copies
Opowiadania 1 (2005) 2 copies
Die Erzählungen (1998) 2 copies
Itt és most (2006) 2 copies
Dnevnik o priči (1987) 2 copies
No, no y no (2014) 2 copies
Dossier 1 1 copy
Obra crítica II (2014) 1 copy
Dossier 2 1 copy
Drugo nebo 1 copy
Omtijden 1 copy
Niewpory (1989) 1 copy
Dossier 3 1 copy
Ahi y ahora 1 copy
PROVIMI 1 copy
Рассказы (1999) 1 copy
Pasajes 1 copy
Поезия 1 copy
Ośmiościan 1 copy
Ruegos 1 copy
Ein gewisser Lukas (2002) 1 copy
Slut p ̄leken (2015) 1 copy
Les Fils de la vierge (1996) 1 copy
Egzamin (1991) 1 copy
Kronoper & Famer (2012) 1 copy
Den tabte himmel (1970) 1 copy
Cartas I 1 copy
I racconti 1 copy
Antología personal (2011) 1 copy
Stāsti (2006) 1 copy
Son Raunt (2009) 1 copy
Sotron 1 copy
Relatos 1 copy
Citas debesis (2006) 1 copy
Takipci 1 copy
Sántaiskola (2009) 1 copy

Associated Works

Robinson Crusoe (1994) — Translator, some editions — 23,374 copies
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 1,136 copies
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contributor — 834 copies
The Book of Fantasy (1940) — Contributor — 611 copies
The Seven Madmen (1929) — Introduction, some editions — 549 copies
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983) — Contributor — 506 copies
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contributor — 464 copies
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories (1992) — Contributor — 399 copies
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (1995) — Contributor — 360 copies
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1949) — Translator, some editions — 301 copies
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contributor — 213 copies
Adán Buenosayres (1948) — Foreword, some editions — 178 copies
The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America (1973) — Contributor — 156 copies
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America (1991) — Contributor — 148 copies
From the Observatory (1972) — Photographer — 129 copies
Bedtime Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contributor — 125 copies
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020) — Contributor — 113 copies
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Contributor — 113 copies
The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (1997) — Contributor — 106 copies
The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories (2000) — Contributor — 105 copies
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror (1979) — Contributor — 76 copies
16 cuentos latinoamericanos : antología para jóvenes (1992) — Contributor — 69 copies
The Naked I (Picador Books) (1971) — Contributor — 62 copies
Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2 (2015) — Contributor — 60 copies
Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (1602) — Contributor — 51 copies
El infierno musical (1971) — Preface — 44 copies
The Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Gold Bug (1973) — Translator, some editions — 41 copies
Found in Translation (2018) — Contributor, some editions — 36 copies
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories (1990) — Contributor — 30 copies
Mejores relatos latinoamericanos (1998) — Contributor — 28 copies
One World of Literature (1992) — Contributor — 24 copies
De toppen van Latijns-Amerika (1984) — Contributor — 17 copies
Phantastische Aussichten (1985) — Contributor — 17 copies
Blow-Up [1967 film] (Criterion Collection) (2017) — Author, some editions — 14 copies
Afternoon of the Dinosaur (1982) — Foreword, some editions — 13 copies
Seven stories from Spanish America (1968) — Contributor — 6 copies
Erkundungen: 20 argentinische Erzähler (1975) — Contributor — 3 copies
Racconti di cinema (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies
Повести магов (2002) — Contributor — 3 copies
De spannendste Zuidamerikaanse verhalen (1986) — Contributor — 3 copies
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Contributor — 3 copies
El cuento literario (2008) — Contributor — 2 copies
TRES RELATOS EN NEGRO — Translator, some editions — 2 copies
New Voices of Hispanic America: An Anthology — Contributor — 2 copies

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This is a book of short stories by an Argentinian writer. I enjoyed most of the stories, but they are pretty literary and conceptual, so probably not for everyone. I think my favorite was the first, where a community forms when there is a traffic jam outside of Paris that lasts for days.
 
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banjo123 | 14 other reviews | May 27, 2024 |
Der Verfolger ♦ Julio Cortázar | Rezension

Der Verfolger aus der Feder von Julio Cortázar erzählt vom altbekannten Leid eines unverstandenen Künstlers.

Auf der Suche nach sich selbst und noch mehr Größe fand er nur die Drogen und den Alkohol. Einsam, obwohl von Menschen umringt, verfolgt Johnny, was er wohl erst im Tod fand.



Der Verfolger ♦ Julio Cortázar

Meinung

Ein zwischen Genie und Wahnsinn hin- und hergerissener Musiker ist das Thema der Kurzgeschichte Der Verfolger. Die Tatsache, dass es in diesem Film um Charlie Parker und seinen durch Drogen verursachten Sturz und Tod geht, wird nur leicht verschwiegen. Während die Novelle normalerweise in Sammlungen diverser Kurzgeschichten erscheint, wurde sie in Deutschland als eigenständiges Buch veröffentlicht.

Es ist eine kunstvoll gestaltete Charakterstudie über den Wahnsinn, der durch den Heroinkonsum hervorgerufen wird. Es zielt darauf ab, Licht auf die fehlerhafte Fähigkeit des Genies zu werfen, mit der Realität umzugehen. Charlie Parkers Alter Ego, Johnny Carter, sucht ständig nach Wegen, um zu vermitteln, was ihn motiviert. Zufällig entstehen brillante Arbeiten, die ihn aber nicht zufriedenstellen, weil sie hinter seinen Zielen zurückbleiben. Sowohl er als auch andere ihm nahestehende Personen missbrauchen und nehmen Drogen. In seiner Nähe zu sein, ist wie auf einem dünnen Seil zu balancieren, ohne zufriedenstellendes Ergebnis.

Fazit

★★★★★

Der Verfolger ist kurze, aber fesselnde Geschichte, bei der es sich genauso gut um echte MusikerInnen und KünstlerInnen handeln könnte, die am Ende des Tages einen Dritten brauchen, um ihre Arbeit vom Alltäglichen abzuheben. Aus diesem Grund wurde ich beim Lesen dieses Buches, das sich um den Alltag des Jazzgenies dreht, süchtig nach seinen Süchten und Sorgen des Protagonisten.


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RoXXieSiXX | 5 other reviews | May 20, 2024 |
Five Stars go to "Axolotl" - though one horrible sentence could easily have gone.

The rest are depressing, boring, sickening, or bloody...
 
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m.belljackson | 16 other reviews | Apr 3, 2024 |
He escrito estos puntos sobre los cuentos de Final del juego:
- Cada cuento te llega al corazón.
- Cortazar prefiere la sencillez.
- Los cuentos son para disfrutar y entender.
- Siempre te hacen sentir algo.
- Describen el ambiente y los personajes de forma clara.
- Solo necesitan unos pocos detalles.

En definitiva, lee despacio y reflexiona sobre ellos.
 
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judithDelRio | 6 other reviews | Feb 8, 2024 |

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