Comments on: Translating Cortázar http://baires.elsur.org/archives/translating-cortazar/ Life in Buenos Aires Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:21:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Rachel Skardis http://baires.elsur.org/archives/translating-cortazar/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Rachel Skardis Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:48:56 +0000 http://baires.elsur.org/?p=69#comment-27 I was completely unaware of Cortázar until very recently, when I read Gioconda Belli's memoir and she mentioned Hopscotch. This book blew me away, and finally an author topples Murakami and wins the #1 spot in my bookwormed heart. I have been reccomending this author to every semi literate person that I know in New Mexico. You're "blog" is fascinating, btw. But yes, I like to think of myself as well-read in terms of World Literature, however, Cortázar is a fresh, exciting discovery for me. I don't know why his works aren't more popular in the U.S. I was completely unaware of Cortázar until very recently, when I read Gioconda Belli’s memoir and she mentioned Hopscotch. This book blew me away, and finally an author topples Murakami and wins the #1 spot in my bookwormed heart. I have been reccomending this author to every semi literate person that I know in New Mexico. You’re “blog” is fascinating, btw.

But yes, I like to think of myself as well-read in terms of World Literature, however, Cortázar is a fresh, exciting discovery for me. I don’t know why his works aren’t more popular in the U.S.

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance » Translating Cortázar http://baires.elsur.org/archives/translating-cortazar/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance » Translating Cortázar Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:12:10 +0000 http://baires.elsur.org/?p=69#comment-21 [...] Jeff Barry points out that one of Argentina’s most well known novelists, Julio Cortázar, is rarely known in the English literary world where “literature in translation [is] being constantly curtailed to make room for the Da Vinci Codes and Harry Potters.” [...] [...] Jeff Barry points out that one of Argentina’s most well known novelists, Julio Cortázar, is rarely known in the English literary world where “literature in translation [is] being constantly curtailed to make room for the Da Vinci Codes and Harry Potters.” [...]

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