Itinerary of a cosmoargentinian: Julio Cortázar and the Chile of Allende

Abstract

 A relatively unknown fact in Julio Cortázar’s life and creation trajectory, the period between 1970 and 1980 is marked by a strong involvement with “the Chileans”: first in support of the Chilean path towards socialism, then in the cultural resistance against Pinochet. Thus, we want to highlight in this work his commitment to the Chilean way to socialism in order to raise some questions about the notion of commitment itself. We will also explore the ideological evolution and theoretical positions of the Argentinian author about the place that culture should occupy in the emancipation of Latin American people. For this, we will focus both on studying the theoretical convergences between intellectual postures within the debate of the period, about the role of the intellectual in the revolution, and on giving a sample of the concrete actions in which his involvement was translated. All this will finally allow us to explain the cortazarian vision of creation as a “weapon to correct the future”