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Title: Materiality in Julio Cortázar's literature : rereading "Axolotl," "No se culpe a nadie" and the almanac books
Author(s): Abrego, VerónicaLook up in the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
Issue Date: 2020
Type: Article
Language: English
Abstract: In the light of the material turn in the Humanities some aspects of Julio Cortázar’s (1914–1984) work become very evident today as a laboratory of the future. For Cortázar, reading was a transforming impulse, part of a process of liberation from mental ties to which he contributed as an author, challenging the barrier between the fantastic and the real, the limit between the human and the animal, between the living and the inert. Thus, as a critic on blind Modernity, Cortázar, from his stories, questions anthropocentrism in a gesture that in the current crisis of the Anthropocene could not be more topical. Moreover, while he supported the transformation of people’s material conditions of life in Latin America, he innovated and celebrated literature in intermedial texts that are the decanted result of a creative performance, embedded in the strongly transcultural context of a diaspora that was first voluntary and then became exile.
URI: https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/38600
http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/38357
Open Access: Open access publication
License: (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0(CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Sponsor/Funder: Publikationsfond MLU
Journal Title: Neohelicon
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Publisher Place: Dordrecht [u.a.]
Volume: 47
Issue: 2
Original Publication: 10.1007/s11059-020-00555-w
Page Start: 477
Page End: 503
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