One of my favourite writers: Julio Cortázar

This week, I decided to write about one of my favourite writers, because is very difficult choose one writer. So, I chose... Julio Cortázar.


Julio Cortázar is an argentine novelist and short story writer. He has been called a "modern master of the short story". He wrote a lot of short stories, collected in volumes as "Final del Juego" or "Bestiario". "Final del Juego" was the first Cortázar's book that I read, and since that moment my life changed. One of my favourite books, is written by him: Rayuela, a novel that you can read according to two different sequences of chapters. You can read progressively from chapters 1 to 56, or through the entire set of 155 chapters according to a "Table of instructions" designated by Cortázar. I can't tell the story, but if I had to say something about the book, I can say that is a wonderful travel.
Cortázar was activist engaged in opposing abuses of human rights in Latin America, and was a supporter of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua as well as Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution.
In his literature, you can see the influence of the surrealism and he uses the interior monologue.
Last year, I travelled to Buenos Aires, and I could meet the coffee "London City", the coffee where Cortázar wrote the novel "Los Premios". It was a great experience.

 

Wall Street, New York City.

This photograph was taken by my cousin Camila, in the winter holidays of 2014. With my cousins I traveled to New York City in United States that year, for ten days. A exiled partner invited me and I only paid my ticket. That was so good, because NYC is very expensive, especially the play to stay.

In this photograph, I was in Wall Street, the "financial district". When the photograph was taken, I went to the East River, because if you sail in the East River you can see the Statue of Liberty. In Wall Street, I could see the National September 11 Memorial, and the huge buildings. But honestly, I went to Wall Street because is the place where you take the ship to see the Statue of Liberty. After the photograph, I went to the East River and saw the Brooklyn Bridge.

I like this photograph, because that holidays were so good. I could know an important part of the country through the perspectives of sudamerican, indian and american people. I learnt that the country doesn't guarantee minimum social rights so, I could confirm that the economic and social model is bad, because is so unequal.