Julio Cortázar | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 23 pages of analysis & critique of Julio Cortázar.

Julio Cortázar | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 23 pages of analysis & critique of Julio Cortázar.
This section contains 6,203 words
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SOURCE: McNab, Pamela J. “Shifting Symbols in Cortázar's ‘Bestiary’.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 50, no. 2 (December 1997): 335-46.

In the following essay, McNab considers the symbolism in “Bestiary,” contending that “the reader must dispense with traditional notions in order to appreciate fully Cortázar's masterful and innovative manipulation of symbols via the uniquely limited narrative perspective of a child on the threshold of adolescence.”

Introduction

In his recent study Hacia Cortázar: Aproximaciones a su obra, one of Julio Cortázar's most careful readers, Jaime Alazraki, singles out “Bestiario” as a story worthy of further commentary.1 He writes, “la desequilibrada atención prestada al tigre ha dejado en sombra otras aristas de la narración que de ser iluminadas arrojarían también alguna luz sobre la función del tigre y rescatarían nuevos recursos desde los cuales funciona la delicadísima relojería de este cuento” (109). As...

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