Julio Cortázar: el despertar de una conciencia histórica
Keywords:
Julio Cortázar, historical consciousness, literatura and politics, historiographic metafiction.Abstract
This article explores the emergence of historical consciousness in Julio Cortázar’s work. Cortázar’s career shows an evolution from the aestheticism of the historical avant-garde and international modernism to a progressive awareness of the intellectuals’ engagement with Latin American politics. Although metafictional and historical elements recur in many of his works, he only began to write historical fictions and political essays after his firsthand discovery of revolutionary Cuba. In Libro de Manuel Cortázar reflects on this shift in both his life and his work using the narrative mode known as historiographic metafiction, but it is in his late short-stories where a synthesis of ethics and aesthetics achieved the highest degree of success.
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