Literature class

R$ 165,90

Sinopse

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!”

Participantes

Autor: Julio Cortazar

Tradutor: Katherine Silver

Autor

JULIO CORTAZAR

Julio Cortázar nasceu em Bruxelas, em 1914, mas foi educado na Argentina — país de origem de seus pais. Estudou Letras, trabalhou durante algum tempo como professor em áreas rurais até que, em 1951, fixou residência definitiva em Paris, onde desenvolveu brilhante carreira literária, iniciada com a publicação de Los reyes. Entre suas principais obras destacam-se Bestiário, Octaedro e 62 Modelo para armar. Julio Cortázar morreu em Paris, em 1984.