Julio Cortázar entre viajes y bibliotecas

Abstract

At the crossroads between life and work in Julio Cortázar, I aim to examine through the figure of the journey, that tension, that rhythm, that extends from the same to the other. So I read critically not only in the materiality or imaginary or fictional realization of the trip, but also their productive function as discursive operator and narrative scheme; the journey as a way of looking and characterization of a question to confront an enigma that attracts the desire to search. The transit of journey, of life, of writing and / or reading, are not perpetual movements, they are interrupted by stops. The nomadism of Julio Cortázar entails the requirement to locate stations where restorative refuge is sought, the life meant as transit is an interval between two eternal infinities, but while the fate of death is unavoidable, it is not a constant movement , there are stays in the dwellings that, from time to time, put a stop to the wanderings. There’s Cortázar that reads and writes from different positions: critic, teacher, theorist, translator, narrator and poet, among other intermediate variants; this positions has different specificities and takes varied intensity according to each instance of his life. The periodization that divides the life and work of Julio Cortázar in six stages, is a critical approach that I intend to tackle with his poetics from a different perspective, considering the journeys and the various functionalities of the operations of reading and writing that characterized each period. My proposal to deal with the work and life in Julio Cortázar as a crossroads divided into six periods are primarily intended to establish axes around which it is possible to approach a certain differential specificity that characterizes each of them, both transits, journeys and writing, as well as the stays, the volumes of his work and the creation of librarie