A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Pursuer"
()
About this ebook
Read more from Gale
A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's Macbeth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA study guide for Frank Herbert's "Dune" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's Animal Farm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for James Clavell's "Shogun" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Lois Lowry's The Giver Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for James Joyce's "James Joyce's Ulysses" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: ALBERT BANDURA Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Bakery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBusiness Plans Handbook: Furniture Businesses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Psychologists and Their Theories for Students: JEAN PIAGET Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore" Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for Wole Soyinka's "Death and the King's Horsemen" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide (New Edition) for William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for George Orwell's 1984 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Study Guide for John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide (New Edition) for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Pursuer"
Related ebooks
Skywriting by Word of Mouth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Quotations of Bone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut with the Stars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan: Volume One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAngels in the Wind Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYou Can't Win: A Story from Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReinhart in Love Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The City That Killed the President: A Cultural History of Dallas and the Assassination Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriting of the Formless: Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Henry James's "Beast in the Jungle" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLunar Follies Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Skin of Dreams: New and Collected Poems 1995-2018 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "End of the Game" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPericles, Prince of Tyre Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Western Shore Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Carlos Fuentes's "The Old Gringo" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConversations with Billy Collins Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Kelefa Sanneh's Major Labels Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Parisian Affair and Other Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMan Overbored Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5THE PIRATES OWN BOOK (Illustrated): Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNext Wave: America's New Generation of Great Literary Journalists Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Tragic Muse by Henry James (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Rainbow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Literary Criticism For You
As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bad Feminist: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verity: by Colleen Hoover | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Pursuer"
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Pursuer" - Gale
1
The Pursuer
Julio Cortázar
1959
Introduction
In 1959, the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar published a short story entitled El Perseguidor
(The Pursuer
) that vividly brought to life the bebop scene of 1950s Paris. Taking the final months in the life of the prodigious jazz musician Johnny Carter as its subject, the story is in many ways an exploration of the career and personal life of the famous alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, the most influential musician of the style of jazz music known as bebop. The Pursuer
offers a glimpse into Johnny's personal life, from his severe drug addiction and psychological instability to his profound philosophical insights, and it follows the key moments of Johnny's relationship with his biographer and critic Bruno, the narrator of the story.
With its daring narrative structure, which uses shifting verb tenses as a way of reinforcing its challenging conception of time and philosophy, Cortázar's short story is clearly the work of a talented and ambitious writer. By the time he published his early short stories, such as The Pursuer
in Paris, Cortázar had begun to establish himself among an international community of innovative writers. His depiction of the tensions between the critic and the artist, the theme of pursuit in art and life, and newly emerging philosophies of time and space, have earned The Pursuer
a place among the classic texts of post-World-War-II literature. The story was originally published in the collection Las Armas Secretas (The Secret Weapons), but Paul Blackburn's translation from the Spanish became available in End of the Game and Other Stories, published by Random House in 1963.
Author Biography
Julio Cortázar was born in Belgium in 1914 and raised by his mother in a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Throughout his youth he developed a passion for classic literature, but he was forced because of his family's financial situation to drop out of the University of Buenos Aires after one year and become a teacher. He continued to read foreign literature and published a book of sonnets entitled Presencia (Presence) in 1938, under the pen name Julio Denis. In 1944 he took a post teaching French literature