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Julio Cort ázar & Naguib Mahfouz

Julio Cort ázar & Naguib Mahfouz. Cort ázar. Cortázar Beginnings. Born August 26, 1914 in Brussels, Belgium Buenos Aires (1918-1951) Father abandons family – Los Venenos Mother selects readings – Jules Verne & begins imaginary writing “Buenos Aires was some kind of punishment”.

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Julio Cort ázar & Naguib Mahfouz

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  1. Julio Cortázar& Naguib Mahfouz Cortázar

  2. Cortázar Beginnings • Born August 26, 1914 in Brussels, Belgium • Buenos Aires (1918-1951) • Father abandons family – Los Venenos • Mother selects readings – Jules Verne & begins imaginary writing “Buenos Aires was some kind of punishment” "I spent my childhood in a haze full of goblins and elves, with a sense of space and time that was different from everybody else's.“ (Cortázar in Plural)

  3. Cortazar Life • 1935 to 1945 - French Literature Teacher in Buenos Aires high schools • 1951 – emigrates to France from opposition Juan Domingo Perón • First collection short stories Bestiary • Translated Robinson Crusoe& Edgar Allan Poe into Spanish under United Nations • Active in Latin American politics -visits Cuba in 1961 and Nicaragua in 1983

  4. Mahfouz • Born in Cairo in 1911 • Cairo is a huge influence on his works • Published his first novel in 1939, published 10 more before Revolution of 1952 • Strict Muslim Upbringing • Stopped writing after this for several years • Every work is political in nature • Books banned in many Islamic countries for being blasphemous • Assassination attempt

  5. Commemoration • Cairo (hometown) • 100 years from birth • 2011 declared Mahfouz year

  6. Rayuela • Rayuela (1966, Hopscotch) – masterpiece • Anti-novel using stream of consciousness with multiple endings • Reflection of life in that protagonist desperately searching for his life's purpose in South America and Europe (Exstitiental??) • Reader re-arrange chapters “Table of Instruction”

  7. Themes Mahfouz • Existentialism • Stream of Consciousness • Modernism Cortazar • Quest for identity - Hopscotch • Hidden reality behind the everyday lives • Existential trouble

  8. Mahfouz Influences • Proust, Tolstoy, Chekov, Ibsen • Taha Hussein, MuhammedHusaynHaykal • Henri Bergson • Egyptian nationalism & politics • Socialism- Al-Khalili and New Cai • El-Muwaylili – Arabic novel

  9. Influences of Cortazar • Jean Cocteau´s Opio • French Surrealism- sub-consciousness & imagery • Jules Verne (science fiction) • Edgar Allan Poe (translations) • James Joyce(stream of consciousness) • Borges- similar themes of fantasy/ perception of reality – Los Reyes

  10. Impacts “opened doors for five generations of Arab novelists.” Cortazar • Modern Egyptian/Middle Eastern Literature • Alaa Al Aswany • Bridged gap between Arabic literature and European and American traditions Mahfouz • Pioneer Latin Boom & magical realism genre • w/ Marquez & Carlos Fuentes • Rayuelaopened the door to linguistic innovation of Spanish language and influenced deeply Latin American writers

  11. Magical Realism

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