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This article explores the political dimension of Julio Cortázar's ‘collage’ books, La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos (1967) and Último Round(1969). The article elucidates the ways in which the format and content of these two texts form a crucial part of the aesthetics of this author, as they embody a part of Cortázar's evolving efforts to write literature for the political revolution in Latin America, without compromising his belief in artistic freedom. Using a technique that foreshadows his final novel, Libro de Manuel(1973), each piece of the puzzle that these two books represent is a quotation from the day-to-day reflections of Cortázar's artistic life, while they also function as citations of his understanding of contemporaneous political realities. The analysis goes against the deep-rooted critical tendency that divides Cortázar's writings into ‘apolitical’ and ‘political’. I argue that from his very early writings, such as El examen(written in 1950) or Imagen de John Keats (written between 1951 and 1952), politics were at the centre of Cortázar's concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
