Bestiario de julio cortazar biography

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• "Casa Tomada" ("House Inane Over")
• "Carta a una señorita en París" (Letter follow a Teenaged Lady interchangeable Paris")
• "Lejana" ("The Distances")
• "Ómnibus" ("Omnibus")
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When is a book a book of short stories and when is it a collection? The difference might seem niggling but with the help of Julio Cortázar’s Bestiary: Selected Short Stories (Vintage Classics, ) it might be possible to see why the distinction matters.

But first a detour via the wavy roads of solipsism.

I got into Julio Cortázar, in my late teens, through his book of short stories, Bestiario. If any public display of the first person is an unforgivable sin when writing about someone else’s book, may I be exonerated by declaring that this phenomenon — getting into Cortázar’s in one’s teens, through Bestiario — is a very common occurrence among Argentine readers. You get into Julio in adolescence, generally through a boyfriend or girlfriend, read part of his vast oeuvre all the way into the late thirties, and when life starts to give you lemons you drop him, protesting his cheesiness, his propensity for corny language experiments, denouncing his oversize and whimsical novel Modelo para armar, and to a lesser extent Rayuela, both books that suffer from the cliché of bohemian Paris, and more precisely the cliché of the Argentine self-exile bohemian in Paris. And this process is even more pronounced when you dedicate to writing more or less serio

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Bestiario / Bestiary

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"The common reality," writes Alberto Manguel in his Introduction, "that attached itself to Cortazar like a second skin - the political struggles, the difficult affairs of the heart, the messy business of literature with its passion for novelty and gossip - will quietly fade, and what will remain is the shining teller of uncanny tales, tales that hold a delicate balance between the unspeakable and that which must be told, between the daily horrors of which we appear to be capable and the magical events with which we are gifted every night in the labyrinthine recesses of the mind." 

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