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Prosa Del Observatorio (1972)

by Julio Cortázar(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Editorial Lumen

review 1: As I read, the famous image of a snaking consuming itself appeared in my mind. As I continued, I came to realize we've been seeing the snake wrong this whole time; the snake no more swallows itself than your annoying Uncle Frank swallows a worm when he feigns it to disgust his young nieces and nephews. It's the same illusion of position and perspective. Shifting one way or another reveals the rest of the serpent coiled precisely and artfully upon itself to pull off the trick. Yet the symbol of infinity remains, though perhaps it's meaning has shifted, because the coils themselves are infinite, so no matter how you view it, you see infinity.
review 2: diificult and dense but i held onto the confidence that cortazar would eventually lead me to a critical literary... more experience. this short book which can be read within a day enfolds sebald-like photographs that are both funereal and isolated moments of belated hope. cortazar sees and relates to us that built within us, much as the reference to the unknowing urge of the atlantic eel to return to its spawning ground generation after generation, is our need to seek beyond the artifice of worldly life, all its comforts and false safety, to a higher more significant contact with reality- to live on its brink. cortazar accomplishes this with words and images that defy the belief they are merely secondary signifiers. their accumulation and weave has left me deeply and healthily unsettled. less

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