Los espectros de los desaparecidos : pasajes entre compromiso político y visión literaria en los últimos cuentos de Cortázar
- Submitting institution
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University of Strathclyde
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 63041489
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/s11061-016-9487-3
- Title of journal
- Neophilologus
- Article number
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- First page
- 93
- Volume
- 101
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 0028-2677
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The uneasy relationship between literary conception and political commitment is a recurrent subject in Julio Corta´zar’s writings and their critical reception. The debate revolves around two considerations: firstly, whether/how Corta´zar managed to reconcile his aesthetics with his ethical views; secondly, whether this led to a paradigm change in his poetics. These deliberations culminated in Corta´zar’s last three short story compilations, where the need for political and ethical engagement articulates with the fantastic. This article examines four of these stories as examples of Corta´zar’s attempt to reconcile the individual metaphysical search typical of his early writings with his later political pledges.