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Julio Cortázar Background
Family Background
He was the son of an official assigned to the Argentina embassy in Belgium
In 1918, the family settled in the Buenos Aires suburb of Banfield. The father abandons the family, and Julio Cortázar grows up with his mother, his sister, his aunt and his grandmother.
Marriages
In 1953 he married Aurora Bernárdez, a translator from Argentina.
In 1967, he broke his bond with Bernárdez and joined the Lithuanian Ugné Karvelis, with whom he never officially married, but who instilled in him a great interest in politics.
With his third partner and second wife, Canadian writer Carol Dunlop, he made numerous trips, one of the first was to Poland, where he participated in a solidarity congress with Chile.
After the death of Carol Dunlop, Aurora Bernárdez will accompany him during his illness and will become the sole heir to his published work and texts.
Economical Background
As his father was the embassy of Argentina in Belgium their econimal situtuatuon was affected as the First World War because they need to return to Argentina.
Durng the second world war he was a professor of French literature at the National University of Cuyo in Mendoza. Juan Perón was the strong man of the Argentine government, which had tried to stay neutral in World War II. So his economical situation no was affected so much.
His family had money, because his father was the embassy of Argentina in Belgium, also he was born in Belgium, so these means that his family had money and power.
Social Background
He left Belgium because of the first world war, after that he went to Argentina, but he didn´t have any money, he was part of the middle class, and when the goverment of Juan Petrón, he went to Paris to have a better life
Cortazar's success was due to the fact that some producers wanted to make a movie based on the book "Las Babas del Diablo" (The Devil's Drool), and by copyright the producers had to give him credit, which they did, and in this way people were more interested in reading stories.
Sources
https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/c/cortazar.htm
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julio-Cortazar
https://www.ecured.cu/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar
https://durangoherald.com/articles/269441
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julio-Cortazar
Dialnet-LaDecadaInfameEnLaArgentina-5171591 (1).pdf
Historical background
He lived in the most well-known "Infamous Decade". A period of time in Argentina, of extreme corruption. A stage that brought much skepticism, The country was given over to foreign capital.
He preced the fisrt world war as a child and the second one as an adult , This historical moment was very important for the history of Julio Cortazar since it was one of the reasons why he moved to Argentina
He died since he had AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion in 1984.
He emigrated to France in 1951 and spend the rest of his life there.
He was an Argentine writer, one of the great figures of the so-called "boom" of Spanish American literature, an editorial phenomenon that, in the 1960s, gave the continent's narrators a well-deserved international projection.
General information.
Born: August 26, 1914, Ixelles, Belgium
Died: February 12, 1984, Paris, France
Notable works: Rayuela
Language of literary production: Spanish
Awards: Foreign Medici Award, Honor Konex Award
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