Julio Cortázar

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Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984) was an Argentine intellectual and author of several experimental novels and many short stories.

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[edit] Rayuela (Hopscotch) (1963)

• 'Andábamos sin buscarnos pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos.'
  • Translation: We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.
  • Chapter 1.

• Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo.
  • Translation: Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.
  • Chapter 71.

The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him.

[edit] Historias de Cronopios y de Famas (1962)

• 'Ahora pasa que las tortugas son grandes admiradoras de la velocidad, como es natural. Las esperanzas lo saben, y no se preocupan. Los famas lo saben, y se burlan. Los cronopios lo saben, y cada vez que encuentran una tortuga, sacan la caja de tizas de colores y sobre la redonda pizarra de la tortuga dibujan una golondrina.'
  • Traslation: Now it happens that turtles are great speed enthusiasts, which is natural.
    The esperanzas know that and don't bother themselves about it.
    The famas know it, and make fun of it.
    The cronopios know it, and each time they meet a turtle, they haul out the box of colored chalks, and on the rounded blackboard of the turtle's shell they draw a swallow.

[edit] Un tal Lucas (1979)

• 'AMOR 77'

Y después de hacer todo lo que hacen, se levantan, se bañan, se entalcan, se perfuman, se peinan, se visten, y así progresivamente van volviendo a ser lo que no son.

• • Translation: LOVE 77

And after doing all they do they rise from their bed, they bathe, powder and perfume their persons, they dress, and gradually return to being what they are not.

[edit] Julio Cortázar (1975)

• "The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him."

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• Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

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