caa a22 4500 463200446 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-007-9057-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-007-9057-9 Selnes Gisle Department of Comparative Literature, Institutt for Lingvistikk og Litteraturvitenskap (LILI), University of Bergen, Sydnesplass 7, 5007, Bergen, Norway aut Cortázar's Orphism? Poetic ontology through posthumous utopia [Elektronische Daten] [Gisle Selnes] Drawing on earlier studies on Cortázar's Orphism, most notably by Graciela Coulson and D. Mesa Gancedo, this article readdresses the problem by focusing more closely on the fundamental textual qualities of Cortázar's oeuvre. Beyond occasional references to Orphic motives in his writings, four principal aspects seem to link his work to the Orphic universe: (1) an ontological aspect, according to which there is a resonance between literary writing and some deeper stratum of human nature; (2) an "exilic” aspect, epitomized in the fateful backward glance; (3) a posthumous aspect, projecting the work beyond the limits of death; and (4) a Utopian aspect, akin to Marcuse's reading of the Orpheus figure in terms of unproductive, autotelic desire. From a focus which places the corpus of Cortázar's writings within a more encompassing, comparatist perspective, his search for an Orphic dimension is traced beyond the extant books and well into the extensive Cortazarian "Nachlass.” Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) nationallicence Argentinean literature nationallicence Orphism nationallicence Posthumous works nationallicence Exile nationallicence Utopia nationallicence Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 641-655 0028-2677 91:4<641 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9057-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9057-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Selnes Gisle Department of Comparative Literature, Institutt for Lingvistikk og Litteraturvitenskap (LILI), University of Bergen, Sydnesplass 7, 5007, Bergen, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Springer Netherlands 91/4(2007-10-01), 641-655 0028-2677 91:4<641 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer