Table of Contents

Introduction; To burn like this without surcease ... Carlos J. Alonso; Part I. Reading Cortázar Today: 1. Between Utopia and Inferno (Julio Cortázar's version) Ana María Amar Sánchez; 2. Comic stripping: Cortázar in the age of mechanical reproduction Jean Franco; 3. Cortázar and postmodernity: new interpretive liabilities Neil Larsen; 4. Cortázar's closet René Prieto; Part II. Cortázar Read Cortázar: 5. Between reading and repetition (apropos of Cortázar's 62: A Model Kit) Lucille Kerr; 6. Cortázar and the idolatry of origins Gustavo Pellón; 7. Supposing Morelli had meant to go to Jaipur Andrew Bush; Part III. Reading Politics: 8. Apocalipsis in Solentiname as heterological production Alberto Moreiras; 9.The man in the car/In the Trees/Behind the Fence: from Cortázar's Blow-up to Oliver Stone's JFK Frederick Luciani; Part IV. The Ethics of Reading: 10. Pursuing a perfect present Doris Sommer; 11. Press clippings and Cortázar's ethics of writing Aníbal González.

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A 1998 collection of essays on the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.

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"Alonso (Emory Univ.) takes an innovative approach to the much-studied boom author and prepares the way for a re-evaluation of Cortazar's fiction, poetry, and miscellaneous work..." Choice