Famas y cronopios julio cortazar biography
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Julio Cortázar
Argentine author (1914–1984)
"Cortázar" redirects here. Lay out other uses, see Cortázar (disambiguation).
Julio Cortázar | |
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Cortázar in 1967 | |
| Born | 26 August 1914 (1914-08-26) Ixelles, Belgium |
| Died | 12 Feb 1984(1984-02-12) (aged 69) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris |
| Occupation | Writer, translator |
| Nationality | Argentine, French |
| Genre | Short story, versification, novel |
| Literary movement | Latin American Boom |
| Notable works | Hopscotch Blow-up elitist Other Stories |
| Notable awards | Prix Médicis (France, 1974), Rubén Darío Order signify Cultural Home rule (Nicaragua, 1983) |
Julio Florencio Cortázar[1] (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin Earth Spanish:[ˈxuljokoɾˈtasaɾ]ⓘ) was an Argentinian and naturalized Frenchnovelist, little story man of letters, poet, writer, and intercessor. Known importance one medium the founders of depiction Latin Indweller Boom, Cortázar influenced type entire procreation of Spanish-speaking readers person in charge writers doubtful America boss Europe.
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Cronopio (literature)
A cronopio is a type of fictional person appearing in works by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914–February 12, 1984).
Together with famas (literally fames) and esperanzas (hopes), cronopios are the subject of several short stories in his 1962 book Historias de cronopios y de famas and Cortazar continued to write about cronopios, famas, and esperanzas in other texts through the 1960s.
Characteristic
[edit]In general, cronopios are depicted as naive and idealistic, disorganized, unconventional and sensitive creatures, who stand in contrast or opposition to famas (who are rigid, organized and judgmental if well-intentioned) and esperanzas (who are plain, indolent, unimaginative and dull).
In his stories Cortázar describes few physical features of cronopios. He does refer to them (in one of the early stories Costumbres de los famas) as "those greenish, frizzly, wet objects," but this description is just the initial author's vision of the invented character. In a letter to Paul Blackburn on 1959-03-27 [1] Cortázar writes that human characteristics of cronopios appeared later, while writing other stories. These demonstrate aspects of cronopios' personalities, habits, and inclinations.
Uses of the term
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Cronopios y Famas (Julio Cortazar, 1962)
The Argentinian Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) is one of the most dazzling cult figures of Latin American literature.
When Cronopios and Famas was published, fifty years ago, Julio Cortázar was already an author admired and praised by critics thanks to his early books of short stories and also his novel “The Winners”. He had not yet published “Rayuela” or “Hopscotch”, the novel that would give him universal fame and would catapult him into the center of a formidable wave of Latin American literature that would be known later as the “Boom.”
Cortázar, an Argentine born in Brussels, had lived in Paris for many years working as a teacher, critic and translator. Before that, he was working as a journalist in Buenos Aires. As a young man, he published a book of poems (that is said to be as rare as the Guttenberg Bible) and a strange manuscript under the name of Los Reyes. Notwithstanding these early forays into literature, Cortazar can be considered a late bloomer. When Rayuela was published, a year after the publication of Cronopios, he was close to turning fifty. The literary circles in which he moved praised his Spanish translation of the works by Poe, which appears in all the antholo