Notes:
1. There are a great number of authentic audio and video clips of
Cortázar available online. I have tried to include some of the
most intereresting here, but I would really welcome suggestions from
the class as well.
2. See also the critical bibliography listed on our Rayuela page; it refers to more than just that novel.
A very smart, short blog post on Rayuela If you do not read anything else to orient yourself in the novel, read this post by one Kyle James Matthews, a person studying the deployment of bodies in literature. And here, for good measure, is a sharp, short, very critical post non the novel. Cheat sheet on Rayuela
This is from a site that has plot summaries and canned commentary on
novels. It can be useful to look at if you want some orientation
on plot and characters before diving into a complicated chapter of Rayuela. Scroll down past the ads and general information, and you will come to the chapter summaries. Encuentro con la Maga The Maga
character is apparently based on Aurora Bermúdez,
Cortázar's second wife. In this journalistic article from May
2010, Sergio Ramírez (the well known Nicaraguan novelist)
describes a recent meeting with Bermúdez and a number of writers
and literary scholars in Madrid. Facebook page of Rayuela Here you can talk to Rayuela fans. Images and Cortázar's voice reading the famous passage from Chapter 7, "Toco tu boca..." Julio Cortázar. Essay by Cristina Peri Rossi on the last 15 years of Cortázar's life. Barcelona: Omega, 2000. She says among other things that he may have died of AIDS and not leukemia. La Maga An unknown literary blogger discusses this character in the novel and reproduces print journalism commemorating the Rayuela's 40th anniversary. Perceptive, brief, worth a look. Rayuela The first 56 chapters, in order 1-56, full text (Spanish). Tango project on Rayuela Music, images, and voice of Cortázar reading from Rayuela, chapter 7 (site includes link to written text).
