Julio Cortázar and the revolution

Abstract

This article makes an interpretation of the conflictive relations between Julio Cortázar and the Cuban revolution. This analysis tries to weigh the ambivalences and certainties the Argentinean writer had towards his political affiliation, this, from his arrival to Paris in 1951, to the publication of his novel Libro de Manuel, in 1973. It also approaches the understanding of the writer about the meaning of revolutionizing literature and writing to revolution. His way of understanding the particular socialism, in which he believed in his last years of life, is also investigated. At the same time, it is attempted to assess a Latin American literature written under some political schemes in which the creative freedom confronted the revolutionary commitment.