History Creator / JulioCortazar

* AllJustADream: Played with in [[spoiler:"The Night Face Up".]]

* BilingualBonus: Present in all his writings.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Hélène in ''62: A Model Kit'']]

* CloudCuckooLander: A lot of characters in a lot of works. Arguably, Cortázar himself.
* ContemplateOurNavels
* DownerEnding

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:"Axolotl"]].
* GratuitousEnglish
* GratuitousFrench
* HauntedHouse: "House Taken Over"... possibly.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:"The Night Face Up".]]

* LosingYourHead: One of the drabbles in "Unstable Stuff" (from the book ''Cronopios and Famas'').
* MagicRealism

* MindScrew

* OldShame: A book of sonnets under the pseudonym Julio Denis.

* PungeonMaster: Cortázar himself.

* SchrodingersButterfly: Mercilessly used in "The Night Face Up".

* SwitchingPOV: "Axolotl" does in smoothly right in the middle; "Miss Cora", on the other hand, does it every 100-200 words.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''62: A Model Kit'' was born as an extension of an idea Cortázar had when writing the chapter 62 of ''Literature/{{Hopscotch}}'' (hence the title).

* StreamOfConsciousness

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[[caption-width-right:239:“I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.” ]]

Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914-February 12, 1984) is an Argentinian writer, famous for being one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. Actually, though he was from Argentina, he spent most of his time outside the country, first because his family lived in Europe (he was born in a Belgium embassy during the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI German occupation]]) and later in a self-imposed exile in France because of his dislike of the Peron’s administration. He became a supporter of leftism (including the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua) and critic of the human right violations in Latin America. He died in 1984 of leukemia.

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: 'Cronopio' is the most famous word invented by Cortázar. Supposedly it refers to someone who is naive and idealistic, disorganized, unconventional and sensitive (he even refers to them as 'creatures').
* PunBasedTitle: ''Around the Day in Eighty Worlds'', ''A Manual for Manuel'', etc. They work better on Spanish, obviously.

* WordSaladTitle

Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914-February 12, 1984) is an Argentinian writer, famous for being one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. Actually, though he was from Argentina, he spent most of his time outside the country, first because his family lived in Europe (he was born in a Belgium embassy during the [[WorldWarI German occupation]]) and later in a self-imposed exile in France because of his dislike of the Peron’s administration. He became a supporter of leftism (including the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua) and critic of the human right violations in Latin America. He died in 1984 of leukemia.

Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) is an Argentinian writer, famous for being one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. Actually, though he was from Argentina, he spent most of his time outside the country, first because his family lived in Europe (he was born in a Belgium embassy during the [[WorldWarI German occupation]]) and later in a self-imposed exile in France because of his dislike of the Peron’s administration. He became a supporter of leftism (including the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua) and critic of the human right violations in Latin America. He died in 1984 of leukemia.

Some of his writings (particularly his short stories) have influenced movies, like ''Weekend'' of Jean-Luc Godard or ''BlowUp'' of Michelangelo Antonioni.

* OlderThanTheyLook: The photo at the top of this page was taken in 1967. Yes, he was 52-53 years old at the time.

* ClosedCircle: "South Highway" uses a long traffic jam... a '''very''' long traffic jam.

His work is amply revered by the Latin American critics and writers, full of {{Mind Screw}}s around every corner, modernism worthy of Creator/JamesJoyce, wordplay, tracts of stream of consciousness everywhere and bend or just break any convention of literature itself. Some of his most famous works are ''Rayuela'' (''{{Hopscotch}}'', 1963), ''62, modelo para armar'' (''62: A Model Kit'', 1968), ''Bestiario'' (1951) and ''Final del Juego'' (1956).

!!Tropes about him and his work[[note]]except ''{{Hopscotch}}'', which has its own page[[/note]]:

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''62: A Model Kit'' was born as an extension of an idea Cortázar had when writing the chapter 62 of ''{{Hopscotch}}'' (hence the title).

->-- '''Julio Cortázar''', ''Hopscotch''

!!Tropes about him and his work[[note]]:except ''{{Hopscotch}}'', which has its own page[[/note]]: