Bøger af Julio Cortazar

The story of two young writers whose lives are playing themselves out in Buenos Aires and Paris to the sounds of jazz and brilliant talk, Hopscotch, written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel.

”På de store rastepladser med servicestation, butik og som regel restaurant vokser der hver nat en lille, flygtig og omskiftelig by frem, som kun vil eksistere en enkelt gang for så at blive erstattet af en anden, der ligner, men er anderledes end den foregående dags. Pludselig er byen fyldt op, og det er verdens mest internationale by med bulgarske, franske, tyske, spanske, græske og belgiske huse, dybe huse med påskrifter eller store presenninger, der dækker over mysteriet …”Ud fra devisen rejser skal være digte sætter de forelskede ’autonauter’ Julio Cortázar og Carol Dunlop sig en varm forårsdag i 1982 for at gennemføre en 33 dage lang rejse ad ’kosmostradaen’ fra Paris til Marseille i dragen Fafner – et langsommeligt rødt Folkevognsrugbrød – med hver en skrivemaskine. Og motorvejen mod syd og dens 65 rastepladser forvandles umærkeligt fra grå asfalt til klingende poesi gennem finurlige cortazarske og dunlopske betragtninger over stort og småt. Her dokumenteret ved hjælp af dagbogsoptegnelser, brevvekslinger, fotografier, skitser over ruten og ikke mindst fri fantasi.Beretningen i sin bogform er også en endelig afsked og sidste kærlighedserklæring; Carol Dunlop døde få måneder efter hjemkomsten, bare 36 år gammel.

Cortazar's stories are descriptions of ordinary moments in which something impossible quietly takes place. His characters are all innocent: things happen to them but, if they are responsible for what takes place, their responsibility is not revealed to them. They must make sense of fated events.

Historier om kronoper og famøser Julio Cortázar Oversat af Peer F. Bundgård Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), argentinsk forfatter. Regnes for det tredjemedlem af den fantastiske litteraturs store argentinske trojka, som udover ham bestod af Adolfo Bioy Casares og Jorge Luís Borges. I sitforord skriver Peer F. Bundgård bl.a. om Historier om kronoper ogfamøser:”Teksterne er en art groteske, dels højkomiske, delsdramatiske transformations-tour-de-forcer, der ikke forpasser en enestelejlighed til at vende vrangen ud på enhver genstand, ethvert sted,enhver situation, enhver nok så triviel beskæftigelse. Som læseren snart vil se, findes der verdener, hvor vejledninger i at gå op ad trapper og i at dræbe myrer i Rom reelt er uundværlige. Og atter andre, man selvkan frembringe ved at slå en knude på et hår, montere tigre eller byggeskafotter i forhaven. Og så er der selvfølgelig den verden, som på allepunkter ligner vor – var det ikke for kronoperne, famøserne ogforhåbningerne.”

Novellemesteren fra Buenos Aires Julio Cortázars fascination for metroen begyndte, da han som 8-9-årig jævnligt tog med sin bedstemor fra forstaden Banfield ind til Buenos Aires for at aflægge visit hos nogle venner. For dernede, i underverdenen, er alting anderledes. Lugtene, lydene og det matte, døde lys – et fastfrosset, moderne helvede. En sort handske på en metalstang, der umærkeligt sniger sig ind på en brun handske. Et møde i en rude mellem to spejlbilleder. En passagerkontrol, der afslører, at der ved dagens slutning er gået flere mennesker ned i metroen, end der er kommet op igen; og en mand, der sætter sig for at opklare mysteriet.

'A deeply touching, enjoyable novel, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious and intricate in its designs' New York TimesIn a city that could be Paris, London or Vienna, a loose-knit group of travellers, artists, and dreamers gather - drawn together by a cryptic passage from a book. Among them are the exiled writer Juan, the elusive Hélène, and the troubled Celia, each slipping between reality and illusion as their lives intertwine. Conversations turn into riddles, encounters take on the weight of fate, and a dark undercurrent of violence pulses beneath it all.Both playful and disorienting, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortázar's most enigmatic puzzle - an intricate, hypnotic novel that challenges the very nature of storytelling.

Dive into the mesmerizing dreamworld of Latin America's literary great, Julio Cortázar.As the 1949 carnival dances on in Buenos Aires, a group of young creatives gather in the sumptuous seclusion of an art studio. In this surreal, bohemian sanctuary, ruled by the dazzling Renato Lozano, elaborate meals are assembled, while strange poetry and merciless witticisms flow like wine.Yet, as time passes, tensions and secrets begin to unravel, and so too do the boundaries of established reality. Divertimento will whisk you away on a bizarre and brilliant journey, taking you to the hidden heart of art, fantasy and the alchemy that is creative interpretation.This is Julio Cortázar's bold, experimental debut, here translated into English for the very first time.TRANSLATED BY HARRY MORALES'Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed' Pablo Neruda'A first-class literary imagination' The New York Times Book Review

In 1970s Paris, a group of revolutionaries plot the daring kidnapping of a powerful Latin American official. But among them is Andrés, a man adrift in a world of high-stakes politics.As Andrés spirals into a crisis of identity, Cortázar intersects the group's story with real-life documents, newspaper clippings, and personal reflections to construct a compelling mosaic that explores the complexities of revolution, commitment, and the human spirit.

When a group of Argentinians win a mysterious lottery, their prize - a luxury cruise - seems too good to question. But as the voyage unfolds, strange and unsettling events begin to mount. The passengers find themselves trapped aboard a ship run by a silent, secretive crew, and the true nature of their journey grows ever more uncertain.Funny, frightening, and richly lyrical, The Winners is a philosophical thriller of tangled fates and wayward love - an incisive meditation on power, exile, and the myth of the New World.

In a fog-drenched Buenos Aires, Juan and Clara should be preparing for their final exam. Instead, they roam the city with friends, drifting through cafés, encountering strange happenings, and unravelling life's mysteries. All the while, they are shadowed by the mysterious Abel.Darkly funny and steeped in ambiguity, Final Exam is Julio Cortázar's haunting allegory of a world on the brink-his melancholic, defiant farewell to an Argentina he would soon leave behind forever.

Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Julio Cortázar is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. This special volume of the Encontros Collection is the result of interviews conducted between 1970 and 1977, in Paris, Barcelona, and Saignon, by Uruguayan writer and journalist Ernesto González Bermejo. In them, he reveals a Cortázar, at the same time intimate and extremely lucid about the procedures of his writing, in engaging talks about literature and his political commitment in the last years of his life. An indispensable book to get to know this great Argentinean author.

With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century.

Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Perón's government), Final Exam is Julio Cortázar's bitter and melancholy allegorical farewell to an Argentina from which he would soon be permanently self-exiled.In a surreal Buenos Aires, a strange fog has enveloped the city to everyone's bewilderment. Juan and Clara, two students at a college called "The House," meet up with their friends, and, instead of preparing for their final exam, wander the city, encountering strange happenings and pondering life in cafés. All the while, they are trailed by the mysterious Abel.With its daring typography, shifts in rhythm, as well as wildly veering directions of thought and speech, Final Exam breaks new ground in the territory of stream-of-consciousness writing. Darkly funny-and riddled with unresolved ambiguities-Final Exam is one of Cortázar's best works.Author of Hopscotch and Blow-Up, Julio Cortázar's (1914-1984) was a novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer. He was born in Brussels, lived in Argentina, but moved permanently to France in 1951, where he became one of the twentieth century's major experimental writers.

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