Jules Florencio Cortázar was born Argentina Embassy in Brussels, Belgium on August 26, 1914. The son of an Argentine matriomonio by that time living in Europe, in 1918 he returned to Argentina and settled in Banfield, where he lived with his mother, aunt and sister. It was his mother who incidence in reading (with the great Jules Verne) and in fantasy. Cortazar will that she was watching the white clouds and silhouettes guess, and think about characters and stories. Julio Cortazar's child had a very fragile health and that fueled his passion for reading (so much so that a doctor ordered him to stop reading " because it made him ill "...). He studied at the Faculty and graduates Mariano Acosta Normal in 1935 as Professor of Arts, a title he used in his youth to work as teachers in various cities of the province of Buenos Aires. In 1944 he moved to Mendoza to give courses in French literature and the following year, having won the presidential election Perón decided to resign before yielding to pressure from a regime that intimidated him. Since there is professionally engaged in writing and in 1948 decided to study to become a certified translator of English and French. A three-year career in the nine months ago, an effort that causes neurosis and cure some of their fairy tales as "Circe" and "Houses Taken" (both stories intgrarán "Bestiary" published in 1951, a book that gives the beginning of a reputation that will not stop until his death.) Unhappy with the excesses of Peronism decide to leave the country and settle in Paris, France, city in which to live until the end of his days.
Julio Cortazar had a strong political commitment past their fifties. Toured America and won his copyright for political prisoners in the region. He was in Cuba and moved with the affection of his people by Che, ciurcunstancia who admire him to copy it to your own image (Ernesto Guevara's beard was what I decided, after a minor surgical procedure, to let it grow for imitate). This relationship with revolutionary Cuba was cut by Fidel when he publicly rebuked by his request for information on journalists persecuted by the Cuban government. Cortazar is also involved in the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, a country he visited on several occasions. Pra close its intensity, was also in the Chile of Allende, who sympathized with the regime despite serious doubts about its efficiency.
Julio Cortazar had a love life as passionate as it was in everything. His first marriage (1953) was to play along to accompany him, with interruptions, throughout his career. His second wife was a Lithuanian, Karvelis, (1967) which decided in its ideology influenced in their political commitment. Her third relationship (and remarriage) was with the Canadian Carol Dunlop dies Cortazar two years before allowing his first wife, Aurora, accompany him on his final illness (leukemia) until his death in Paris in 1984.
His life was an example of its intensity. Cortazar wrote stories, essays, stories, novels, plays, poetry. Gave numerous interviews where he has intimate and sincere to the public. Read many of his works which are exciting and left records ideolígicas views and policies, written and filmed, which allows be present, even online to new generations of stakeholders to study and admire. Cortazar
changed classical literature. It was original. Fantasized about the words, reading rhythms. He played with phrases and with readers. Gave rhythm to his writing. Box fan and Jazz, it seems that he punches with his lyrics and paragraphs in fiction and folly as well as his stories set to music that is heard between the lines and enjoyed in every point and part. Borges said. He was surprised with his talent and passion. Cortazar is that caresses the soul with his directorial debut, "Hopscotch", a book that had never been born if not for his story after "The Tracker" ("My little Rayuelita" according to author). Cortazar's creativity never ceases. There were many works of art that complement the great timeless Cortazar, who won the cronolgía of days and years, as Cronopios and Famas "," Examination "," The Book of Manuel "or" Last Round " .
Their creativity and innovation still leave us a murmur is heard and not understood. As he wrote in one of his stories has left readers "standing in a corner while looking at what they think, but think about what they see." Cortazar genuine. Cortazar great.
