Julio Cort ázar & Naguib Mahfouz
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Julio Cortázar & Naguib Mahfouz
Cortázar
Born August 26, 1914 in Brussels, Belgium
Buenos Aires (1918-1951) Father abandons family – Los Venenos
Mother selects readings – Jules Verne & begins imaginary writing
“Buenos Aires was some kind of punishment”
Cortázar Beginnings
"I spent my childhood in a haze full of goblins and elves, with a sense of space and time that was different from everybody else's.“ (Cortázar in Plural)
1935 to 1945 - French Literature Teacher in
Buenos Aires high schools 1951 – emigrates to France from opposition
Juan Domingo Perón First collection short stories Bestiary Translated Robinson Crusoe & Edgar Allan Poe
into Spanish under United Nations Active in Latin American politics -visits Cuba in
1961 and Nicaragua in 1983
Cortazar Life
Born in Cairo in 1911 Cairo is a huge influence on his works Published his first novel in 1939, published 10
more before Revolution of 1952 Strict Muslim Upbringing Stopped writing after this for several years Every work is political in nature Books banned in many Islamic countries for
being blasphemous Assassination attempt
Mahfouz
Cairo (hometown)
100 years from birth
2011 declared Mahfouz year
Commemoration
Rayuela (1966, Hopscotch) – masterpiece
Anti-novel using stream of consciousness with multiple endings
Reflection of life in that protagonist desperately searching for his life's purpose in South America and Europe (Exstitiental??)
Reader re-arrange chapters “Table of Instruction”
Rayuela
Cortazar
Quest for identity - Hopscotch
Hidden reality behind the everyday lives
Existential trouble
ThemesMahfouz
Existentialism Stream of
Consciousness Modernism
Proust, Tolstoy, Chekov, Ibsen Taha Hussein, Muhammed Husayn Haykal Henri Bergson Egyptian nationalism & politics Socialism- Al-Khalili and New Cai El-Muwaylili – Arabic novel
Mahfouz Influences
Jean Cocteau´s Opio
French Surrealism- sub-consciousness & imagery
Jules Verne (science fiction) Edgar Allan Poe (translations) James Joyce(stream of consciousness) Borges- similar themes of fantasy/ perception of reality – Los Reyes
Influences of Cortazar
Impacts
Cortazar Modern
Egyptian/Middle Eastern Literature
Alaa Al Aswany Bridged gap
between Arabic literature and European and American traditions
Mahfouz Pioneer Latin Boom &
magical realism genre w/ Marquez & Carlos
Fuentes Rayuela opened the
door to linguistic innovation of Spanish language and influenced deeply Latin American writers
“opened doors for five generations of Arabnovelists.”
Magical Realism