Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

Author: Julio Cortázar

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0811225356

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A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar “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 Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’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 Cortázar designing his own creations.… Essential for anyone reading or studying Cortázar, cronopio or not!”


Hopscotch

Hopscotch

Author: Julio Cortázar

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 1101870141

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"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.


Final Exam

Final Exam

Author: Julio Cortázar

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780811217521

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One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. "Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed."--Pablo Neruda


Understanding Julio Cortázar

Understanding Julio Cortázar

Author: Peter Standish

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781570033902

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The work of the twentieth-century Argentine writer Cortazar is analyzed by Standish (foreign languages and literature, East Carolina U., Greenville), who writes with the assurance of his long familiarity with the author's work. Of the eight chapters, the first is devoted to Cortazar's life, the remainder to his writing, which is divided chronologically and by genre. Cortazar's own writing on literature and his controversial political identity each merit separate chapters. c. Book News Inc.


From the Observatory

From the Observatory

Author: Julio Cortázar

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1935744062

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"Perhaps Cortaaazar's most unconventional work, From the Observatory moves from descriptions of the life cycle of the Atlantic eel to glimpses of the unearthly structures of an observatory built in Jaipur by an 18th-century Indian prince. This architectural wonder is not merely a place dedicated to astronomical observation but also a space that bears witness to the dreams of those who enter it. Cortaaazar's haunting photos of this enigmatic creation flow into other images--streets, oceans, night skies--which then flow into his verbal dance with a dream-logic all its own. Like fish unaware of why they are migrating, readers will be pulled into this fantastic current."--P. [2] of cover.


62

62

Author: Julio Cortázar

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780811214377

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First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortázar's brilliant, intricate blueprint for life in the so-called City.


Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

Author: Steven Pressfield

Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC

Published: 2016-06-12

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1936891506

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There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this: NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T. Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional. From Chapter Four: “When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with ev­ery sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?


Unreasonable Hours

Unreasonable Hours

Author: Julio Cortázar

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A collection of eight stories never before published in English which combine--as all of Cortazar's stories do--realism with the fantastic, and display Cortazar's mastery at describing the ordinary moment. These stories show the heroism required when ordinary people struggle with the impossible.


A Certain Lucas

A Certain Lucas

Author: Julio Cortázar

Publisher: New York : Knopf

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Through bits and pieces, the author paints a portrait of one man's life.


Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Author: Julio Cortázar

Publisher: North Point Press

Published: 1989-10-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780865472044

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Poems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars