- Known For
- Writing
- Born
- August 26, 1914
- Place of Birth
- Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
- Died
- February 12, 1984
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe. He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history, poetic prose and short story in general and a creator of important novels that inaugurated a new way of making literature in the Hispanic world by breaking the classical moulds through narratives that escaped temporal linearity. He lived his childhood and adolescence and incipient maturity in Argentina and, after the 1950s, in Europe. He lived in Italy, Spain, and in Switzerland. In 1951, he settled in France for more than three decades and composed some of his works there. Jul…
Filmography
movieLa Resenha Tomada
2026 · Original Film Writer
movieLa Continuidad de los Patios
2025 · Original Story, Author
movieSerán Legión
2024 · Short Story
movieTinikling
2023 · Writer
movieThe Padilla Affair
2023 · Self (archive footage)
movieCortázar: instrucciones de montaje (I)
2020
movieSave Twilight
2020 · Idea
movieMario y los perros
2019 · Self - Writer (archivo footage)
movieAmargo era el postre
2019
movieLa Puerta Condenada
2017 · Original Story
movieHistorias de Cronopios y de Famas
2014 · Original Story
movieLa Noche Boca Arriba
2012 · Author
movieMade Up Memories
2009 · Author
movieLa inmiscusión terrupta
2006 · Author
movieContinuidad
2001 · Author
movieFuria
1999 · Short Story
movieA Hora Mágica
1998 · Original Story
movieClose Up
1997 · Story
movieCortázar
1994 · Himself
movieGood Services
1993 · Writer
movieInstrucciones para subir escaleras
1982 · Idea
movieMonsieur Bébé
1974 · Novel
movieOmnibus
1972 · Short Story
tvLe Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
movieCasa tomada
1970 · Short Story
movieWeekend
1967 · Short Story
movieBlow-Up
1966 · Homeless Man (uncredited), Author
movieEl perseguidor
1965 · Story
movieIntimidad de los parques
1965 · Story
movieLeonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell
1965 · Writer
movieCirce
1964 · Writer
movieOdd Number
1962 · Story
IN DEPTH: Julio Cortázar
movieIN DEPTH: Julio Cortázar
— · Himself