INTELLECTUALS AND REVOLUTION. CORTÁZAR: A POETICS FOR POLITICS
After the death of Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1967) and the anti-intellectual turn imposed by the political authorities (1968), many Latin American intellectuals withdrew their support for the Cuban Revolution. Julio Cortázar, on the other hand, not only maintained his adhesion to the socialist project...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/21127 |
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| Sumario: | After the death of Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1967) and the anti-intellectual turn imposed by the political authorities (1968), many Latin American intellectuals withdrew their support for the Cuban Revolution. Julio Cortázar, on the other hand, not only maintained his adhesion to the socialist project and claimed the freedom and autonomy of the intellectuals, but also wanted to be the Guevara of letters and proposed a poetics for politics: socialism could only be —from his perspective— if it knew how to be poetry. This essay describes that program based on a critical reading of his correspondence and his work. |
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