“What good is a writer if he can’t destroy literature?” The question comes from Julio Cortázar’s landmark 1963 novel Hopscotch, the dense, elusive, streetwise masterpiece that doubles as a High ...
In his 1952 short story “Axolotl,” a reader may find the central fulcrum on which the worlds of Julio Cortázar turn. Here, in this brief story (a mere seven pages in its English translation), Cortázar ...
Julio Cortázar, trans. from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. New Directions, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2534-2 Between October and November 1980, the late Argentine novelist Cortázar taught eight ...
Northwestern Slavic Department Professor Emeritus Irwin Weil is now available for mass consumption. A set of Weil’s recorded lectures, called “Classics of Russian Literature,” will be on sale starting ...
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