Cortasar brief biography

Parents are Argentines, among his ancestors - Basques, French, Germans. Brussels is occupied by German troops. The family moves to Switzerland, where he is waiting for the end of the war. The family returns to Argentina.

Father throws a family, Julio remains with his mother, aunt, grandmother and younger sister Ophelia. Often, it gets sick, breaks his hand, asthma develops in him. The first literary experiments in prose and verses. He receives at the pedagogical school a diploma of a high school teacher. He enters the faculty of philosophy and philology of Buenos Aires University, but a year later leaves his studies due to a lack of funds.

He works as a school teacher in Bolivar, a town in the province of Buenos Aires. He is fond of jazz music, reads a lot, writes stories that he does not publish. Teaches in the town of Chivilka. The military coup in Argentina is one of its leaders-Colonel H. Peron, the future president-dictator. Cortasar teaches French literature at the University of Kuyo. Actively participates in antipeperonist political manifestations.

In February, Cortasar resigned with the victory of the Peeon’s victory in the presidential election. Returns to Buenos Aires, serves in the Argentinean Book Chamber. In the scientific notes of the University of Kuyo, an article by Cortasar about ancient motives in Kitsa’s poetry is published. Exterine, in nine months, ends three -year interpretation courses from English and French.

Severe nervous disorder. Published by the necrologist Antonen Arto. Having received the scholarship of the French government, he leaves for Paris with the firm intention of staying in Europe. She marries the translator Auror Bernards, she transferred to Spanish prose L. during a business trip to Italy is accepted for the translation of the stories of Edgar PO.

A trip to the USA. A trip to Cuba. At the invitation of the socialist government, Salvador Allenda Cortasar with his second wife, Uzna, Karevelis visits Chile. A trip to Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Chile. Cortasar participates in the work of the Russell tribunal in Rome is devoted to violation of human rights in Latin America. A trip to the USA and Mexico, lectures on Latin American literature and its own books, participation in the work of the International Commission for the Study of Crimes of Military Junta in Chile.

Book of conversations E. Gonzalez Bermoha with Cortasar. Trips to Nicaragua and Panama. Discharges from the Uct of Carvelis. The cycle of performances at the University of Berkeley USA. Cortasar receives French citizenship. Doctors diagnose leukemia in him. The third wife of Cortasara, journalist Carol Danlop, dies from leukemia. A trip to Cuba and Argentina.

A trip to Nicaragua, where the Minister of Culture, the priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal rewards Kortasar by the Order of Ruben Dario.