/lit/ - Literature

That unibrow. Julio Cortázar is fucking hot.

Damn, it's next on my list, stop provoking me, I'm yet to buy it!

My father's favourite author. He handled me his edition, but I couldn't do it, the pages are falling out, the book is all messed up. I'll buy a new good edition, read it and then give it to my father.

This is now a Cortázar thread.
What's your favorite short story? Here's my top three?
3. Los venenos (The poisons).
2. Final del juego (End of the game).
1. El otro cielo (The other sky).

The last one is probably one of the greatest short stories ever written.

Don't touch my waifu.
>>3324286
I thank my mother and being latino since from a very young age my mother read Cortazar to me.
I grew reading and re-reading ''La noche boca arriba'' and ''Axolotl''.
I also like La continuidad de los parques a lot. Will dump that story now.

What about the sequence when El club de las serpientes are drinking in Maga's apartment... don't you think it was one of the greatest moments in the novel?
Drinking cheap vodka, listening to jazz vinyls in the shadows... while God (the guy upstairs) is constantly teasing them.

>>3324295
I'll do it in English to motivate anglo-bros to read him.
1/3
HE HAD BEGUN TO READ THE NOVEL a few days before. He had put it aside because of some urgent business, opened it again on his way back to the estate by train; he allowed himself a slowly growing interest in the plot, in the drawing of characters. That afternoon, after writing a letter to his agent and discussing with the manager of his estate a matter of joint ownership, he returned to the book in the tranquility of his study which looked out upon the park with its oaks. Sprawled in his favorite armchair, with his back to the door, which would otherwise have bothered him as an irritating possibility for intrusions, he let his left hand caress once and again the green velvet upholstery and set to reading the final chapters. Without effort his memory retained the names and images of the protagonists; the illusion took hold of him almost at once. He tasted the almost perverse pleasure of disengaging himself line by line from all that surrounded him, and feeling at the same time that his head was relaxing comfortably against the green velvet of the armchair with its high back, that the cigarettes were still within reach of his hand, that beyond the great windows the afternoon air danced under the oak trees in the park

You will never be Julio Cortázar.

>>3324074
Es un libro muy facil? Yo quiero leer un libro en Español y estoy considerando un libro de Cortázar. Mi nivel de Español es muy bajo.

>>3324309
2/3
Word by word, immersed in the sordid dilemma of the hero and heroine, letting himself go toward where the images came together and took on color and movement, he was witness to the final encounter in the mountain cabin. The woman arrived first, apprehensive; now the lover came in, his face cut by the backlash of a branch. Admirably she stanched the blood with her kisses, but he rebuffed her caresses, he had not come to repeat the ceremonies of a secret passion, protected by a world of dry leaves and furtive paths through the forest. The dagger warmed itself against his chest, and underneath pounded liberty, ready to spring. A lustful, yearning dialogue raced down the pages like a rivulet of snakes, and one felt it had all been decided from eternity. Even those caresses which writhed about the lover's body, as though wishing to keep him there, to dissuade him from it, sketched abominably the figure of that other body it was necessary to destroy. Nothing had been forgotten: alibis, unforeseen hazards, possible mistakes. From this hour on, each instant had its use minutely assigned. The cold-blooded, double re-examination of the details was barely interrupted for a hand to caress a cheek. It was beginning to get dark.

>>3324314
You may not be ready. Language may not be the most complex but it's clearly not easy. Btw, your spanish is perfect.

3/3
Without looking at each other now, rigidly fixed upon the task which awaited them, they separated at the cabin door. She was to follow the trail that led north. On the path leading in the opposite direction, he turned for a moment to watch her running with her hair let loose. He ran in turn, crouching among the trees and hedges until he could distinguish in the yellowish fog of dusk the avenue of trees leading up to the house. The dogs were not supposed to bark, and they did not bark. The estate manager would not be there at this hour, and he was not. He went up the three porch steps and entered. Through the blood galloping in his ears came the woman's words: first a blue parlor, then a gallery, then a carpeted stairway. At the top, two doors. No one in the first bedroom, no one in the second. The door of the salon, and then the knife in his hand, the light from the great windows, the high back of an armchair covered in green velvet, the head of the man in the chair reading a novel.

>>3324314
Todo lo contrario, querido. Es un libro extremadamente difícil (o es que quizás uno lo puede hacer difícil si quiere). Yo creé un índice de 200 páginas con todos las refencias literarias, culturales y geográficas que encontré. A eso sumale la cantidad de vocabulario poco tradicional que ocupa a lo largo del libro... no te lo recomiendo (por ahora).

We need more writer's thread without the ''what's /lit/ opinion on XXX???''
Dump more stuff!

Cortázar is now le epic meme.

>>3324375
How do i do some?

>>3324361
My sides

>>3324364
>We need more writer's thread without the ''what's /lit/ opinion on XXX???''

/lit/s not a big Vin Diesel fan.

>>3324421
6/10

>>3324295
Axolotl's nice, despite it's obviousness

>>3324619
Well, he tells you what's going on the first paragraph.
''Ahora soy un Axolotl''

>>3324619
>>3324628
Lel.

>>3324637
Can't you give this lel shit a rest? It is not funny it is simply annoying and dumb as hell...

Bump.

>>3324361
Make me LOL

>>3324671

>2013
>not loving every laugh

rip in piece lyl

So, the point is no one has read anything else besides Rayuela.

>>3324795

Ha, I haven't even read that.
I've only read La Otra Orilla and Bestiario.

>>3324286

Nurse Cora is a GOAT short....

But Hopscotch sucks.

Cortazar was a faggot. Read Borges erryday

>>3324795
I've read everything by Cortazar, AMA.

>>3324994
>2013
>being this much of a faggot

Srsly tho, Borges is great but Cortazar is also a genius, they are two masters of short stories

>>3325304
Yeah when you turn 21 Cortazar stops being that cool

>>3325777

So that's like a good 5-6 years he outlasts Borges then?

>>3325777

Why is it always the anons with the angst-addled teenage dispositions who're first to play the age card? Insecure much?

What do you guys see in his work? I don't see any of his fans here articulating anything.

I read a short story collection and almost every one was based around a simple perspective-switch. The stories didn't seem to have any other purpose but to be mildly clever. They're just parlor tricks. The premises were uncreative-- what appears to be a dream is actually real and what was real is really a dream. All that tired business.

I've before heard someone compare him to Kafka. Ridiculous.

>>3324074

Read "Bestiary" and "End of the Game", specially the stories about children. They are among the best of literature.

>>3325800
Well, you should read his novels, then. They are very different from his short stories.
Also, his latter stories are also different in character (from The Secret Weapons onward). Cortázar himself acknowledged the fact that his first stories were more designed to impress.