Critics and Cortázar

It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the text of Julio Cortazar that a wide range of critical work exists on his writing. In fact, the diversity of concerns informing Cortazar criticism, as well as the quantity of studies published in recent years, might seem a natural or inevitable by-product of the author's own variegated and voluminous production over the past three decades or so. To date, Cortazar has published at least four novels, six volumes of short stories, one dramatic work, two collections of poetry, several "miscellaneous" or "unclassifiable" texts, as well as many reviews and critical essays. 1 The problems that such a diverse corpus might present are indeed borne out in the multitude of studies undertaken in the past twenty years-studies that, if they do not focus on one particular work or collection, must choose among or deal simultaneously with distinct and sometimes hybrid literary forms

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