Research Catalog

Title

Literature class : Berkeley, 1980 / Julio Cortázar ; edited by Carles Álvarez Garriga ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.

Author

Cortázar, Julio

Publication

• New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Álvarez Garriga, Carles, 1968-
• Silver, Katherine

Description

271 pages; 21 cm

Summary

“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 Cort?zar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cort?zar?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 Cort?zar designing his own creations.? Essential for anyone reading or studying Cort?zar, cronopio or not!”

Uniform Title

Clases de literatura. English

Alternative Title

Clases de literatura.

Subject

• Cortázar, Julio
• Literature, Modern > History and criticism
• Spanish American literature > History and criticism
• Literature, Modern
• Spanish American literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "A New Directions Paperbook Original."
• "Originally published in Spanish as Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980"--Title-page verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A writer's paths -- The fantastic short story: time -- The fantastic short story: fate -- The realistic short story -- Musicality and humor in literature -- The ludic in literature: writing hopscotch -- About hopscotch, a manual for Manuel, and Fantomas -- Eroticism and literature.

ISBN

• 9780811225342
• 0811225348

LCCN

^^2016043784

OCLC

982602533

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library