LITERATURE AND POLITICS: JULIO CORTÁZAR’S LIBRO DE MANUEL

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  • Adriane A. Vidal Costa Professora no Centro Universitário Newton Paiva e Universidade Estácio de Sá em Belo Horizonte

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https://doi.org/10.5216/hr.v13i2.6614

Abstract

In the romance Libro de Manuel, Julio Cortázar, despite his concerns about the form, did not stop assuming or proving an engagement with the Latin America’s social reality. In this romance, published in 1973, in a context of mea culpa and disappointment with the Cuban revolutionary process, and, in general, with the lefts, Cortázar entwined and crystallized different reflections and controversies that he maintained with the Latin-American intelligentsia. He expressed support to the struggle for the emancipation of the latin american peoples and, at the same time, criticized the lefts, displaying, as far as possible, the chronic incompetence of the revolutionaries in drawing up and materializing an authentic and integral social change. The purpose of this article is, therefore, to comprehendCortázar’s criticism to the latin american lefts and how he conciliated, in the Libro de Manuel, his political opinions with his aesthetic ones.

 

KEY WORDS: Julio Cortázar, Literature, Politics, Cuban Revolution, Libro de Manuel.

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Published

2009-07-07

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COSTA, A. A. V. LITERATURE AND POLITICS: JULIO CORTÁZAR’S LIBRO DE MANUEL. História Revista, Goiânia, v. 13, n. 2, 2009. DOI: 10.5216/hr.v13i2.6614. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/historia/article/view/6614. Acesso em: 16 aug. 2024.

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