5/14/2023 0 Comments Hopscotch book julio cortazar![]() ![]() Hopscotch in great measure succeeds: it is the Latin-American equivalent of books like The Wings of the Dove and Tender is the Night. They are trying to win for Latin America the experience of perspective won for North American letters by James, Stein, Fitzgerald, and the other great exiles-the escape from false alternatives, the achievement of synthesis. They know that an artist's physical alienation may be necessary to his spiritual rootedness. Poets and essayists like Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges, artists like José Luis Cuevas and Roberto Matta, novelists like Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa-all are trying to develop a new vision of life as accident and variety, outside the monolithic demands of a static history and a fixed geography. Captured within these conflicting absolutes, it is a humorless culture, never detached enough to see itself from the outside, from other perspectives.Īccordingly, the moving force of contemporary art and literature in Latin America is to come up for air. A pride in anarchy and a profound subservience before power: the gaucho, Martin Fierro, makes his own law, but only El Señor Presidente can solve our problems. Extreme individualism and apocalyptic collectivism: Viva Zapata, and the Aztecs will rise again. ![]() Nostalgia for the noble savage and eschatological yearning for the revolutionary man: who killed the Inca Atahualpa? And here comes Godot! Provincial attachment and cosmopolitan rootlessness: tequila vs. Latin America has a schizophrenic culture. ![]()
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