Live from The Ave: Poetry JAM! - Deborah Miranda

Julio Cortázar

Born in Belgium on august 26^th 1914.

Cortazar’s parents were native from Argentina and when he was four years old Julio’s family migrates to Argentina. He graduated as a school teacher and started his studies at Buenos Aires University but later he must quit because of economic issues.

At the age of 37 he traveled to Paris where he lived most part of his life and worked as a translator for UNESCO.

In 1951 he published his first volume story work titled Bestiario-Bestiary- which included the famous story Casa Tomada -House taken over-.

We highlight among his work Historia de cronopios y de famas - Cronopios and Famas- (1962), La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos -Around the day in eighty worlds-(1967) and his famous novel Rayuela -Hopscoth-(1963).

Cortázar period is located and known as the “Boom generation”. Boom is a big literacy development period in Latin-American novel and marked a point in time where the world change Latin American literature conception for better. Cortázar was not the only one author related to the “Boom” but also we can mention:  Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier among others. 
He died in Paris on february 12^th 1984.

"We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other".

"Andábamos sin buscarnos pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos". (Hopscoth)

Horacio Quiroga

Uruguayan writer, born in 1878 in Salto department Uruguay and died in 1937 in Argentina Buenos Aires.

Known by his brief stories where we can highlight: Cuentos de la selva -Jungle Tales- (1918) dedicated to juvenile readers,  Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte- Stories of Love, Madness, and Death- (1917) where we can find the famous tales A la deriva  -Drifting-, La gallina degollada - The Beheaded Chicken , El almohadón de pluma - The Feather Pillow, among others.

Quiroga’s life was fully of tragedies, accident and suicides. When he was 33 after accidentally kill his friends wife, he decides to start living in the jungle in Misiones province of Argentina.  Since then he created most of his work.

His life ended by his own decision after drinking cyanide when he was informed of having a terrible disease.

"Do not write under the hold of your emotions. Let them die and later

raise them to life. If you are able to revive it like it was, as an artist you have made half of your trip".

“No escribas bajo el imperio de la emoción. Déjala morir y evócala luego. Si eres capaz entonces de revivirla tal cual fue, has llegado en arte a la mitad del camino” (Ten Rules for the Perfect Storyteller)

About us

Our names are Alejandra and Daiana. We are students at Literature Teaching. From in Uruguay. Least 26 to 27 years. We are in the final year of the race. We like to read and listen to music. We are interested in different artistic expressions related to Literature. The purpose of this blog is to share Universal Literature in English.