Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio CortÃ¡zar
â€œI want you to know that Iâ€™m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.â€ So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio CortÃ¡zar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These â€œclassesâ€ are as much reflections on CortÃ¡zarâ€™s own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which he lived. Covering such topics as â€œthe writerâ€™s pathâ€ (â€œwhile my aesthetic world view made me admire writers like Borges, I was able to open my eyes to the language of street slang, lunfardoâ€¦â€) and â€œthe fantasticâ€ (â€œunbeknownst to me, the fantastic had become as acceptable, as possible and real, as the fact of eating soup at eight oâ€™clock in the eveningâ€), Literature Class provides the warm and personal experience of sitting in a room with the great author. As Joaquin Marco stated in El Cultural, â€œexploring this course is to dive into CortÃ¡zar designing his own creations.â€¦ Essential for anyone reading or studying CortÃ¡zar, cronopio or not!â€
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780811225342
ReleaseDate 2017-03-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811225342

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