Descript |
271 pages ; 21 cm |
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"A New Directions paperback ; NDP 1385." |
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"Originally published in Spanish as Clases de literatura: Berkeley, 1980"--Title page verso |
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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 -- Appendix 1. Latin American literature today -- Appendix 2. Reality and literature: with some necessary inversions of values |
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zI 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.y So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cort?zar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These zclassesy 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 zthe writer?s pathy (zwhile my aesthetic world view made me admire writers like Borges, I was able to open my eyes to the language of street slang, lunfardo?y) and zthe fantasticy (zunbeknownst to me, the fantastic had become as acceptable, as possible and real, as the fact of eating soup at eight o?clock in the eveningy), Literature Class provides the warm and personal experience of sitting in a room with the great author. As Joaquin Marco stated in El Cultural, zexploring this course is to dive into Cort?zar designing his own creations.? Essential for anyone reading or studying Cort?zar, cronopio or not!y |
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Translated from the Spanish |
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Cortázar, Julio, 1914-1984
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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Spanish American literature -- History and criticism
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Spanish American literature.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Argentinsk litteratur
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Analys och tolkning
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Classmark |
860.9/006
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Alt Auth |
Álvarez Garriga, Carles, 1968- editor
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Silver, Katherine, translator
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Translation |
Clases de literatura. English
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ISBN/ISSN |
9780811225342 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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0811225348 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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