Can anyone recommend me a good biography on Julio Cortázar (preferably in English)?
― EvR, Thursday, 12 August 2010 09:35 (fifteen years ago)
I don't think that there is one--a number of critical texts are around, but no biography, to my knowledge.
― The great big red thing, for those who like a surprise (James Morrison), Thursday, 12 August 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)
Strange that nobody's written one. Garcia Marquez has one and he's still alive.
― alimosina, Saturday, 14 August 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)
Maybe not all that strange. I mean Cortazar is strangely not in (or out of) fashion. Maybe too 60s bohemian. Bit too much of a jazzbo. No Beatles refs.
Hopscotch whole shtick is never all that, either. Like him in stretches tho'.
Feel like reading 62: A Model Kit someday.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 14 August 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)
I only found this one, in Spanish.http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FPaDHwOAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― EvR, Sunday, 15 August 2010 09:42 (fifteen years ago)
rad cover
― just sayin, Sunday, 15 August 2010 09:43 (fifteen years ago)
Maybe too 60s bohemian. Bit too much of a jazzbo. No Beatles refs.
I know what you mean. I could never place Cortazar in time. Maybe the problem was he never looked his age. He was born in 1914! He'd lived through whole eras before writing his novels.
I'm melancholy because I just found out that Cabrera Infante died in 2005.
― alimosina, Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)
I could swear I read a whole article about a new Cortázar bio just the other day. Was I dreaming? Am I waking-dreaming now that I sleeping-dreamed that?
― sharkless dick stick (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:04 (fifteen years ago)
Here's something.
― alimosina, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:46 (eleven years ago)
You are an Axolotl walking along the Pont Neuf talking to Charlie Parker dreaming of Buenos Aires. (xp)
― The Crescent City of Kador (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:57 (eleven years ago)
love this dude
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:33 (eleven years ago)
some of his stuff feels like overly stuffy formal exercises, but then there are things like Cronopios et Famas and Save Twilight and the Axolotl
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:34 (eleven years ago)