Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

ISBN: 0811225348

Author: Cort

Condition: New

A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar I want you to know that Im 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 Cortázars own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which he lived. Covering such topics as the writers 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 oclock 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!