Biography EssayIn all that Julio Cortazar ever wrote, be it novel, short story, play, poem, essay, or collage, he pitted all his intelligence, passion, and playful humor against unthinking acceptance ...
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In all that Julio Cortázar ever wrote, be it novel, short story, play, poem, essay, or collage, he pitted all his intelligence, passion, and playful humor against unthinking acceptance of the g...
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Critical Essay by David I. Grossvogel
Like most of Cortázar's short stories, ["Las babas del diablo"] is primarily a tale about the impossiblity of telling and about the fr...
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Critical Essay by Lanin A. Gyurko
Many of the short stories of Julio Cortázar present situations that appear to be absurd or fantastic…. These stories of the bestial and the demonic may ...
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Critical Essay by Martha Paley Francescato
It is always Oliveira, Juan, Andrés that we hear about [in studies of Cortázar's works]. Why not La Maga, Hélène, Ludmilla...
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Critical Essay by Malva E. Filer
Hands are the members of the human body most actively involved in the individual's psychological and emotional life. They are a source and instrument of pleasur...
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Critical Essay by David William Foster
One of the outstanding characteristics of [Libro de Manuel] is the blending of fictional narration and journalistic clippings, based on the organizing motif of a...
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Critical Essay by JosÉ VÁsquez Amaral
The contemporary Argentinian … is suffering from a grave crisis of identity. The crisis is much more serious than the one that usually accomp...
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Critical Essay by Roberto GonzÁlez Echevarria
[Cortázar suggests] that there is no break between the 'real' and 'fantastic' in his stories but instead a mode ...
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Critical Essay by Lanin A. Gyurko
In "Las babas del diablo," one of the most challenging of the short stories of … Cortázar, the protagonist Roberto Michel is confronted wi...
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Critical Essay by Ana MarÍa HernÁndez
Cortázar has always shown a keen interest in the Gothic aspects of vampirism. He is thoroughly acquainted with the numerous nosferoti precedi...
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Critical Essay by Evelyn Picon Garfield
In Cortázar's short stories we expect to encounter a multifaceted reality. By depicting a normal setting and conventional characters Cortáz...
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Critical Essay by Jorge H. ValdÉs
Cortázar's intention [in A Manual for Manuel is] to provide the reader with an understanding of the "apparently" confused and unden...
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Critical Essay by James E. Irby
Cortázar wholeheartedly continues, in his own fashion, surrealism's vast dream of undoing the whole rational machinery and routine of Western thought and ...
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Critical Essay by Gregory Rabassa
Julio Cortázar is a writer who has thrown off the restrictions of mental Calvinism imposed by the past century and still so much with us…. [He] finds th...
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Critical Essay by Bell Gale Chevigny
In A Manual for Manuel, Julio Cortázar no longer obliges his reader to leap about, as he did in Hopscotch: the page itself jumps…. As in Hopscotch, p...
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In the following essay, Young provides a stylistic analysis of “A Place Named Kindberg.”
“Lugar llamado Kindberg” (“A Place Named Kindberg”), a short story by...
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In the following essay, McNab asserts that Cortázar's depiction of the unreal in “Axolotl” was “inspired by a variety of literary sources, both classical and modern....
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In the following essay, Schmidt-Cruz elucidates the role of Oedipal desires in “Deshoras” and “Historias que me cuento.”
I suspect that one of the reasons why Cortáz...
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In the following essay, Schmidt-Cruz examines the treatment of sexual difference in “Cambio de luces.”
Any reference to the female characters in the short stories of Julio Cortáza...
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In the following essay, McNab considers the symbolism in “Bestiary,” contending that “the reader must dispense with traditional notions in order to appreciate fully Cortáza...
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In the following essay, Henager elucidates the role of sport and physical competition and its connection to the development of identity in Mario Vargas Llosa's “Día domingo”...
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In the following essay, Musselwhite considers the model of the phantasm in “Babas del Diablo” and other stories collected in Las armas secretas.
‘Babas del diablo’ is proba...
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In the following essay, Kauffmann offers an ethnographic interpretation of “Axolotl.”
Is it possible to represent alterity without reifying, colonizing, or preempting it? In the diverse ...
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In the following essay, Tandeciarz views “Diario para un Cuento” as representative of Cortázar's recurring thematic interests and determines the influence of his experience...
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In the following essay, Carbajal examines the theme of illusive reality in “Las babas del Diablo” and its cinematic adaptation, Blow-Up.
It goes without saying that many of Julio Cort&#x...
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In the following essay, Holmes compares the question of home in Cortázar's “Casa tomada” and Ilse Aichinger's “Wo ich wohne.”
In his short story ȁ...
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In the following essay, Harvey delineates the sexual power dynamic in “La señorita Cora.”
As critics have pointed out on various occasions,1 Cortázar's short stories...
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In the following essay, which was originally published in 1992, King regards the examination of childhood as a central theme in Cortázar's short fiction.
“What—is—th...
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In the following essay, Levinson considers the “return to origins” theme in “Azolotl” and discusses the link between origins, identity, authenticity, and Otherness in Latin...
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In the following essay, Sanjinés analyzes the narrative framework of “Blow-Up,” asserting that the story “is constructed on the principle of Chinese boxes.”
I. All t...
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In the following essay, Bittini compares “Las babas del Diablo,” which was published in English as “Blow-Up,” to the film adaptation of the story.
In the opening credits of...
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In the following essay, Roemer perceives the idea of graffiti as folk practice to be a key theme of “Graffiti.”
My focus here is both literary and folkloristic. I draw on the premises of...
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In the following essay, Borland explores the role of protagonist/critic in several of Cortázar's short stories and essays.
En algún lugar debe haber un basural donde están ...
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Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar
