Margins
Último round
1970
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Segundo de los libros-almanaques de Julio Cortázar, se publicó por primera vez en México en 1969 y fue diseñado por Julio Silva. Cortázar se respondía a sí mismo en una autoentrevista sobre el “… en Último round hay un ‘Homenaje a Alain Resnais’ que se puede leer permutatoriamente, lo que modifica cada vez el sentido al mismo tiempo que conserva el clima inicial de ‘L’année dernière à Marienbad’. Hay también una despedida a Teodoro W. Adorno, que se ha convertido al catolicismo; hay varios cuentos, largos y cortos, hay una especie de diario de un día de vida en mi aldea provenzal de Saignon. Hay una defensa de Salvador Dalí (¡oh!); hay un examen general de los problemas del erotismo en la expresión literaria latinoamericana; hay un ensayo sobre el cuento breve y sus alrededores, cuestión que me sigue preocupando y sobre la cual no se ha escrito gran cosa. ¿Te bastan esos botones, o necesitás todo el costurero?” This second of Julio Cortázar’s almanac-books was first published in Mexico in 1969 and designed by Julio Silva. In an interview with himself, Cortázar described the “In Último round there is a ‘Homage to Alain Resnais’ which can be read in a permutational fashion, in such a way that its meaning changes even as the initial atmosphere of L’année dernière à Marienbad is preserved. There is also a farewell to Theodor W. Adorno, who has converted to Catholicism; there are several stories, long and short; and there is a sort of diary of a day in my life in the Provençal village of Saignon. There is a defense of Salvador Dalí (ah!); there is a general analysis of the problem of eroticism in Latin American literature; there is an essay on the short story and its surroundings, a subject which continues to preoccupy me and about which not much has been written. Are these samples enough, or do you want the whole sewing basket?”

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Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar
Author · 104 books
Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.
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