Julio Cortazar (1914-1984), Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer, was born in Brussels, and moved permanently to France in 1951. Cortazar is now recognized as one of the century's major experimental writers, reflecting the influence of French surrealism, psychoanalysis, and his love of both photography and jazz, along with his strong commitment to revolutionary Latin American politics. Professor MacAdam's area of specialization is twentieth-century Latin-American narrative, a subject on which he has published three books and numerous articles. He is also a translator of Latin-American fiction and has translated novels by Julio Cortazar, Reinaldo Arenas, Alejo Carpentier, Jose Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Osvaldo Soriano. From 1984 to 2004, MacAdam was the editor of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, a publication of the Americas Society. This biannual magazine presents work by Latin-American writers not yet known to English-speaking audiences as well as unknown texts by already established writers.
"The stream-of-consciousness narrative helps to make this one of Cortazar's key works." -- Multicultural Review "[A] major undiscovered work...a novel about Buenos Aires which one night turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare. (Worldview, Harry Morales, Summer 2001) " "Cortazar spoke of something more than novelty or progress--he spoke of the radically new and joyful nature of every instant, of the body, the memory and the imagination of men and women." -- Carlos Fuentes
"The stream-of-consciousness narrative helps to make this one of Cortazar's key works." -- Multicultural Review "[A] major undiscovered work...a novel about Buenos Aires which one night turns into a Kafkaesque nightmare. (Worldview, Harry Morales, Summer 2001) " "Cortazar spoke of something more than novelty or progress--he spoke of the radically new and joyful nature of every instant, of the body, the memory and the imagination of men and women." -- Carlos Fuentes
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