Comments on: Weirdfictionreview.com’s 101 Weird Writers: #3–Julio Cortázar ../ Your Non-Denominational Source for The Weird Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:22:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Un neașteptat eseu fotografic dedicat lui Julio Cortázar | Bookaholic ../#comment-15339 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 07:45:18 +0000 ../../../../#comment-15339 […] Surse foto: weirdfictionreview.com, hugopassarello.com […]

]]> By: David Auerbach ../#comment-11844 Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:28:54 +0000 ../../../../#comment-11844 Paul Blackburn’s translation of the Cortázar stories is tremendously flawed. You don’t even need a fine-tooth comb to uncover the problems. A quick read-through of the Spanish and Blackburn’s “version” of “Casa Tomada” can send one’s blood boiling.

]]> By: guitar ../#comment-1984 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:10:46 +0000 ../../../../#comment-1984 Great post. I was checking constantly this weblog and I’m inspired! Very useful info specially the ultimate part :) I take care of such info a lot. I was looking for this certain information for a very long time. Thanks and best of luck.

]]> By: jeffvandermeer ../#comment-1725 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:49:12 +0000 ../../../../#comment-1725 semioseteve. Oh, cool. Yes the translation of Axolotl in THE WEIRD, our new anthology, is the first since the 1960s, and considered definitive by the estate.]]> In reply to semioseteve.

Oh, cool. Yes the translation of Axolotl in THE WEIRD, our new anthology, is the first since the 1960s, and considered definitive by the estate.

]]> By: semiosteve ../#comment-1714 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:51:42 +0000 ../../../../#comment-1714 Oh. and God Bless Ralph for mentioning Robbe-Grillet…

]]> By: semioseteve ../#comment-1713 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:49:10 +0000 ../../../../#comment-1713 I can’t believe finding this review while trolling around trying to figure out what’s happening in this genre. I am new to this site, but have read most all of Cortazar 30 years ago, and Axolotl was always one of the stories I admired and enjoyed. Actually, this is the 1st time I’ve run across anyone even familiar with it.

Cortazar and Burroughs and Ballard — literature for the rest of us. Occupy Perdido Street.

]]> By: Magpie Monday | Robert E. Stutts ../#comment-1655 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:02:48 +0000 ../../../../#comment-1655 […] third is Larry Nolen’s analysis of Julio Cortázar at Weird Fiction Review. I taught Cortázar‘s story “Axolotl” for many years, so […]

]]> By: Ralph Robert (Rob) Moore ../#comment-1637 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:45:59 +0000 ../../../../#comment-1637 One of my favorite writers, much as House Taken Over is one of my favorite stories. I agree HTO can be read with a political subtext (and much of Cortazar is of course political), but there also seems to be an incest subtext, apparently (if I remember correctly) influenced by Cortazar’s complicated feelings towards his own sister.

It’s a shame he’s not better known. He’s one of those writers, like Robbe-Grillet, another favorite, who seem to not be spoken about as much as they once were. Hopefully, your essay will rouse some new readers.

A good starting place for Cortazar is his collection Blow-Up and Other Stories, previously titled End of the Game and Other Stories, issued by Pantheon Books in 1967 with a translation by Paul Blackburn. It includes Axolotl and House Taken Over, mentioned in your piece, as well as another favorite of mine, A Yellow Flower, and Blow-Up, which was the basis for the Antonioni movie, as well as the inspiration for DePalma’s Blow-Out. 15 stories in all.

There’s an excellent interview with Cortazar, quite quite long, by Evelyn Picon Garfield from 1973, reprinted in “The Review of Contemporary Fiction”, Fall 1983, 3.3. The interview gives you a good sense of him as a person.

]]> By: James Everington ../#comment-1608 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:11:34 +0000 ../../../../#comment-1608 Oh I love what Cortazar I’ve read — ‘House Taken Over’ is one of my favourite stories (I recently blogged about it in my ‘strange stories’ series and got the story at least one new fan judging from the comments) and ‘The Axolotl’ is also very fine. I haven’t got to the new translation of it in The Weird yet, but looking forward to revisiting it.

Great article; thank you. Reminds me I must buy ‘Hopscotch’ soon…

]]> By: Larry ../#comment-1569 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:25:07 +0000 ../../../../#comment-1569 I couldn’t work this into the essay without it being a noticeable intrusion, but the new translation done by Gio Clairval is very well done and I believe the first authorized English translation since Cortázar’s passing almost 30 years ago. Just thought this addendum might be of some interest to a few reading this article who have read this story before in the prior English translation.

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