Julio Cortázar
short story writer
| Date of Birth | : | 26 Aug, 1914 |
| Date of Death | : | 12 Feb, 1984 |
| Place of Birth | : | Ixelles, Belgium |
| Profession | : | Argentine-French Novelist And Short Story Writer |
| Nationality | : | Argentine, Belgian, French |
Julio Florencio Cortázar Latin American Spanish was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history, poetic prose and short story in general and a creator of important novels that inaugurated a new way of making literature in the Hispanic world by breaking the classical molds through narratives that escaped temporal linearity.
He lived his childhood and adolescence and incipient maturity in Argentina and, after the 1950s, in Europe. He lived in Italy, Spain, and in Switzerland. In 1951, he settled in France for more than three decades and composed some of his works there.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.
Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
