WOW!! This guy rocks!! I favorited this video because the synopses are as accomplished as a professor but as friendly as a content creator! Amazing list. Amazing!
Omg, thank you so much, Janet!! 😃 I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed the video. A couple of weeks ago I did one on Cortázar's Rayuela. Have a wonderful day, my friend!
Very glad I discovered this channel. I enjoyed House Taken Over, Letter to a Young Lady in Paris, and Bestiary. What I enjoyed about all these stories is that there is something magical (the entity taking over rooms, the bunnies, the tiger) that stands in for a feeling that cannot be expressed directly in words.
Thank you so much, Felix, for watching, commenting, and subscribing! 😃 The stories you mention are brilliant, definitely among Cortázar's best. Your comment on the stories is wonderfully perceptive too, and Cortázar would have loved it as much as I do, as he said that while his stories were fantastic they were always based on something quite real. Thanks again, my friend, and happy reading!
Once I discovered Cortazar short stories, like you, I couldn’t stop-I was obsessed. So glad I came across your channel. I am inspired to read him again, and I look forward to hearing more literary insights from you. Btw, my favorite Cortazar short story is The School at Night.
Thank you so much for stopping by, Barbara! Always a pleasure to meet a fellow Cortázar fan. 😃 "The School at Night," what an unforgettable story. Much more to come on Cortázar from Jorge's Corner. Have a wonderful day, my friend!
First, I have to praise your channel. Just discovered it today, and one after the other I encounter: Ulysses, Berlin Alexanderplatz and now Cortázar's short stories! Of course, there are a lot of videos on Ulysses, but I often feel like I'm the only person I've ever met who has read Berlin Alexanderplatz and Cortazar (even people I know who love magical realism haven't heard of him). Can't tell you how glad I am to encounter someone else similarly enthralled with these authors. Blow-Up is easily my favorite, maybe because it was my first. But it's just so impressively realized: the opening, which seems so baffling and obscure, and as things go on, the enveloping realization of the nightmare. House Taken Over also made a big impression, I think for the opposite reason than that of Blow-Up: it can so easily be read as a simple horror story rather than as anything allegorical or experimental. Could you please at some point do a video on Cortázar's novels? I ask because, unlike his stories, which I read easily and hugely enjoy (his stories have also exerted probably the most profound influence on my own writing of anything I've read), no matter how hard I try, I just can't get into his novels, including the monumental Hopscotch. I try over and over again, and I just end up lost (62: A Model Kit) or board (yes, Hopscotch). But I know I'm missing out on something important. I'd love to hear you illumination of their themes and maybe some tools for entering their worlds more effectively.
Thank you so much, Christopher! Ulysses, Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Cortázar are a great combination. I'm so happy to hear you've enjoyed these videos! You're absolutely right about the opening of "Blow-Up;" I found it baffling too, to the point that I forced myself to keep reading, but then I was glad I did. And "House Taken Over"... what an amazing story. I felt sorry that it was left out of my list, like "Axolotl." I would love to do a video on the novels one of these days! I'm thinking of sharing my Cortázar collection too. I totally agree with you when it comes to the novels. They demand effort on the reader's part, while the stories are such a delight to read. My favorite of his novels is 62: A Model Kit, but I do recommend, as a starting point, Hopscotch in the more "traditional" reading (without the "extra" chapters). Thank you once again for watching and commenting!
Hola jorge! I've never read cortazar's short stories. But after having seen your great video, I am going to kick this off with the 10 stories you have talked about in this video right now. Thank for your advice. Have a gorgeous day, my friend!
Hola, Marinella! You have no idea how I envy you. 😃 As I've mentioned before, probably in this video (I don't remember, haha), one of the saddest days of my life was when I read my last Cortázar story. There's nothing like that first experience of a text, and Cortázar is one author I would love to be able to read again for the first time. Especially his short stories. Happy reading, my friend; have a wonderful day!
My favorite story from him right now is Ómnibus, from bestiario. In such an absurd tale, Cortázar perfectly explains the true meaning of empathy and love in a chaotic world. I also adore, Los Venenos, Bestiario proper, and La Isla al Medio Día.
These are wonderful choices! Los venenos is an amazing story. I almost included it in the "underrated" section. Same thing with Final del juego. They are both great examples of the whole "the short story wins by knockout" thing. Ómnibus is definitely underrated too. You have inspired me to reread it soon. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
Yes! I guess, and I really have to read his stories again, I've read most of them so many years ago ... so maybe I remember them not correctly, but my favourite story is Southern Thruway. By the way: With Ballard it is for me a little bit like with Cortázar: I prefer his short stories over his novels. Love all the stories you mentioned. 2 more are still, after 20 years or so, in my mind ... (and now I have to find out the English or Spanish titles ...) Las armas secretas and ... I think it was: End of the Game. I have to watch more Argentine films, it seems. ;-) I would love to watch again: Hombre mirando al sudeste. I can remember that I loved it 1989 or so (with Bioy Casares and P. K. Dick references) ...
Hello, my friend! I thought you might enjoy this list. :) On your recommendation, I will look into Ballard's short stories. I have both volumes of his Complete Stories in English, but am ashamed to say I've read only a couple of them. Las armas secretas and Final del juego are classics, yes! Argentine cinema is worth checking out, and Hombre mirando al sudeste is the perfect place to start. It may well be the most transcendent film we have. I plan to put together a Top 10 Argentine Films video eventually, but I wonder how many of the films are available with subtitles. Thank you once again, and have a great evening!
@@JorgesCorner Reading at the moment Julio Llamazares' Escenas de cine mudo (because it seems to go slightly in the direction I am trying to go with a new book I am thinking about to write ... thinking about it for over a year now or so. After that I want to go back to Cortázar. (A few days back there was a new book released with short texts by him that were never translated into German before.) By the way: Juan from the channel Juan Reads has a new Cortázar video, too. - Ballard: Yeah, I tried to read his stories chronological (around 10 or 15 years ago). A lot were a little bit too similar - but a few were really outstanding. Definitely a good time. Movies: The French/German TV channel ARTE had around 1990 broadcasted Hombre mirando al sudeste, that's were I saw it. I would be interested in a list of Argentine films I should watch. Maybe I can get some. Thank you for your interesting videos! How's it going with the gialli? :-) - /// Have you read any Juan Carlos Onetti?
Good luck with the book you plan to write! I'm sure it will be amazing. :) I do need to read Escenas del cine mudo. Thoralf from LiteraturNews recommended Llamazares to me too. I've fallen behind with literature in Spanish, I think. Maybe I can make room for Ballard short stories during the summer. :) You know, another great Argentine film is Rosaura a las diez (1958), and I think there's a version with subtitles somewhere here... I made a video on it, but it doesn't have English subtitles (my video on Hombre mirando al sudeste does). I didn't get the chance to watch more gialli yet, but I will soon! Regarding Onetti, absolutely, my friend! He is one of my favorite authors, so I've read all of his novels and quite a few of his short stories. I love La vida breve (Das kurze Leben), El astillero (Die Werft), and his excellent novellas, such as Para una tumba sin nombre (Für ein namenloses Grab) and Los adioses (Abschiede). What a fascinating narrator!
@@JorgesCorner Will take a look at Rosaura at 10 O’Clock soon. ;-) Oh, didn't see that you have a vid on Hombre... Will check it out, soon. Yes, Onetti is great. I began to read his novels chronologically. I have finished last year La vida breve, so I hope I will soon read the next one. Especially La vida breve was one of the best books I've read in the last 5 years or so (well, one of the best ever ...). - I just took a look on the list I made (I told you about it) to defeat my reading slump: The best books I've read in the last years. There is another Onetti on the list: No Man's Land. And I am not sure if only the translator was better than the ones for the other Onetti books or if it really is his best written book (so far).
@@JorgesCorner Thanks for the wishes, by the way. I doubt I will ever finish that new project, but who knows. - I've watched Rosaura a las 10 today, and I adore the structure and a few other things. Liked it a lot. Juan Verdaguer could have played Fernando Pessoa very well. Thank you for the recommendation!
Very nice video. I can't find a copy of Blow-Up, I only have Bestiary from the Penguin collection. 🥺 Cortazar's works are quite difficult to find where I live. Only read Hopscotch so far in digital format which was too out there for me. Alright I am going to do it, going to ask the question: Cortazar or Borges? 😈 You can say "neither" but you cannot say "both". 🤓
I have noticed that Cortázar's individual short story collections are tough to find in English, yes, and I believe some of them were not actually translated in their entirety, or the stories were scattered in different volumes. Ah, that question... omg, I don't think I can answer. 😄 I have called both of them my favorite Argentine author at some point. Ok, let's go with this: if we're talking about their entire oeuvre, Borges; if we're talking about their short stories, Cortázar. I hope that's an acceptable response! 😃
@@JorgesCorner Yes it's a bit all over the place. Penguin did a collection Bestiary and other stories but the choice is haphazard imo. With Borges, they did Collected Fictions (available), Select Non-Fiction (very difficult to track) and Select Poems (practically impossible to find where I live) in those deluxe editions. Anyway, somehow I found them - the Non-Fiction is also really cool but with the poetry, I was completely lost. 🤣 Cortazar on the other hand, it's not easy to find. Sometimes I feel like getting the original ebook and just using Google Translate but with authors like these, it would be tantamount to heresy. 🙈 Thank you for answering. As atonement for making you face the horns of a dilemma, I offer two factoids: 😁 - Once on a Discord server I am part of, I asked top 10 books of all time. And a member said "All my books are like my children, I cannot choose between them!" Me, obsessed with categorisation, lists, rankings was left mesmerised and speechless by that beautiful answer, I cherish it. - Your predicament is very similar to mine when I think Dickens or Wilde? And same conclusion - entire oeuvre - Dickens. But top novel by each for me - Great Expectations vs The Picture of Dorian Gray, its the latter. And then I go back to the quote above - "why choose? Maybe it's a blessing we have multiple beacons shining upon us?" 😁
Those 3 volumes of Borges are wonderful! I'm so glad you were able to find copies. 😃 There are several editions of "Obras completas" in Spanish, but I have Borges' books as published by Alianza Editorial. (More to come about this, hopefully [relatively] soon!) Thank you for sharing the quote about books being like one's children. I can totally relate to it; that's why it's always a difficult choice, especially between Borges and Cortázar. (Others are easier. For example: Sartre or Camus? It's definitely Camus for me.) I'm glad you asked the question, because it helped me to clarify to myself how I feel about these great Argentine authors!
I’m looking for novell which is kind of reincarnation story, one family is sitting by the table eating dinner and they start to say to each other different relationships as they are that time… example daughter s calling father auntie… etc…. I read it very very long time ago in Polish translation… can’t find it
Hm... It doesn't sound familiar to me. I will do some research and will let you know if I find the title! 😃 Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend, and have a fantastic day!
WOW!! This guy rocks!! I favorited this video because the synopses are as accomplished as a professor but as friendly as a content creator! Amazing list. Amazing!
Omg, thank you so much, Janet!! 😃 I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed the video. A couple of weeks ago I did one on Cortázar's Rayuela. Have a wonderful day, my friend!
Very glad I discovered this channel. I enjoyed House Taken Over, Letter to a Young Lady in Paris, and Bestiary.
What I enjoyed about all these stories is that there is something magical (the entity taking over rooms, the bunnies, the tiger) that stands in for a feeling that cannot be expressed directly in words.
Thank you so much, Felix, for watching, commenting, and subscribing! 😃 The stories you mention are brilliant, definitely among Cortázar's best. Your comment on the stories is wonderfully perceptive too, and Cortázar would have loved it as much as I do, as he said that while his stories were fantastic they were always based on something quite real. Thanks again, my friend, and happy reading!
Once I discovered Cortazar short stories, like you, I couldn’t stop-I was obsessed. So glad I came across your channel. I am inspired to read him again, and I look forward to hearing more literary insights from you. Btw, my favorite Cortazar short story is The School at Night.
Thank you so much for stopping by, Barbara! Always a pleasure to meet a fellow Cortázar fan. 😃 "The School at Night," what an unforgettable story. Much more to come on Cortázar from Jorge's Corner. Have a wonderful day, my friend!
First, I have to praise your channel. Just discovered it today, and one after the other I encounter: Ulysses, Berlin Alexanderplatz and now Cortázar's short stories! Of course, there are a lot of videos on Ulysses, but I often feel like I'm the only person I've ever met who has read Berlin Alexanderplatz and Cortazar (even people I know who love magical realism haven't heard of him). Can't tell you how glad I am to encounter someone else similarly enthralled with these authors.
Blow-Up is easily my favorite, maybe because it was my first. But it's just so impressively realized: the opening, which seems so baffling and obscure, and as things go on, the enveloping realization of the nightmare. House Taken Over also made a big impression, I think for the opposite reason than that of Blow-Up: it can so easily be read as a simple horror story rather than as anything allegorical or experimental.
Could you please at some point do a video on Cortázar's novels? I ask because, unlike his stories, which I read easily and hugely enjoy (his stories have also exerted probably the most profound influence on my own writing of anything I've read), no matter how hard I try, I just can't get into his novels, including the monumental Hopscotch. I try over and over again, and I just end up lost (62: A Model Kit) or board (yes, Hopscotch). But I know I'm missing out on something important. I'd love to hear you illumination of their themes and maybe some tools for entering their worlds more effectively.
Thank you so much, Christopher! Ulysses, Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Cortázar are a great combination. I'm so happy to hear you've enjoyed these videos! You're absolutely right about the opening of "Blow-Up;" I found it baffling too, to the point that I forced myself to keep reading, but then I was glad I did. And "House Taken Over"... what an amazing story. I felt sorry that it was left out of my list, like "Axolotl." I would love to do a video on the novels one of these days! I'm thinking of sharing my Cortázar collection too. I totally agree with you when it comes to the novels. They demand effort on the reader's part, while the stories are such a delight to read. My favorite of his novels is 62: A Model Kit, but I do recommend, as a starting point, Hopscotch in the more "traditional" reading (without the "extra" chapters). Thank you once again for watching and commenting!
Hola jorge! I've never read cortazar's short stories. But after having seen your great video, I am going to kick this off with the 10 stories you have talked about in this video right now. Thank for your advice. Have a gorgeous day, my friend!
Hola, Marinella! You have no idea how I envy you. 😃 As I've mentioned before, probably in this video (I don't remember, haha), one of the saddest days of my life was when I read my last Cortázar story. There's nothing like that first experience of a text, and Cortázar is one author I would love to be able to read again for the first time. Especially his short stories. Happy reading, my friend; have a wonderful day!
My favorite story from him right now is Ómnibus, from bestiario. In such an absurd tale, Cortázar perfectly explains the true meaning of empathy and love in a chaotic world. I also adore, Los Venenos, Bestiario proper, and La Isla al Medio Día.
These are wonderful choices! Los venenos is an amazing story. I almost included it in the "underrated" section. Same thing with Final del juego. They are both great examples of the whole "the short story wins by knockout" thing. Ómnibus is definitely underrated too. You have inspired me to reread it soon. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
Yes!
I guess, and I really have to read his stories again, I've read most of them so many years ago ... so maybe I remember them not correctly, but my favourite story is Southern Thruway.
By the way: With Ballard it is for me a little bit like with Cortázar: I prefer his short stories over his novels.
Love all the stories you mentioned. 2 more are still, after 20 years or so, in my mind ... (and now I have to find out the English or Spanish titles ...) Las armas secretas and ... I think it was: End of the Game.
I have to watch more Argentine films, it seems. ;-) I would love to watch again: Hombre mirando al sudeste. I can remember that I loved it 1989 or so (with Bioy Casares and P. K. Dick references) ...
Hello, my friend! I thought you might enjoy this list. :) On your recommendation, I will look into Ballard's short stories. I have both volumes of his Complete Stories in English, but am ashamed to say I've read only a couple of them. Las armas secretas and Final del juego are classics, yes! Argentine cinema is worth checking out, and Hombre mirando al sudeste is the perfect place to start. It may well be the most transcendent film we have. I plan to put together a Top 10 Argentine Films video eventually, but I wonder how many of the films are available with subtitles. Thank you once again, and have a great evening!
@@JorgesCorner Reading at the moment Julio Llamazares' Escenas de cine mudo (because it seems to go slightly in the direction I am trying to go with a new book I am thinking about to write ... thinking about it for over a year now or so. After that I want to go back to Cortázar. (A few days back there was a new book released with short texts by him that were never translated into German before.)
By the way: Juan from the channel Juan Reads has a new Cortázar video, too. - Ballard: Yeah, I tried to read his stories chronological (around 10 or 15 years ago). A lot were a little bit too similar - but a few were really outstanding. Definitely a good time.
Movies: The French/German TV channel ARTE had around 1990 broadcasted Hombre mirando al sudeste, that's were I saw it. I would be interested in a list of Argentine films I should watch. Maybe I can get some.
Thank you for your interesting videos! How's it going with the gialli? :-) - /// Have you read any Juan Carlos Onetti?
Good luck with the book you plan to write! I'm sure it will be amazing. :) I do need to read Escenas del cine mudo. Thoralf from LiteraturNews recommended Llamazares to me too. I've fallen behind with literature in Spanish, I think. Maybe I can make room for Ballard short stories during the summer. :) You know, another great Argentine film is Rosaura a las diez (1958), and I think there's a version with subtitles somewhere here... I made a video on it, but it doesn't have English subtitles (my video on Hombre mirando al sudeste does). I didn't get the chance to watch more gialli yet, but I will soon! Regarding Onetti, absolutely, my friend! He is one of my favorite authors, so I've read all of his novels and quite a few of his short stories. I love La vida breve (Das kurze Leben), El astillero (Die Werft), and his excellent novellas, such as Para una tumba sin nombre (Für ein namenloses Grab) and Los adioses (Abschiede). What a fascinating narrator!
@@JorgesCorner Will take a look at Rosaura at 10 O’Clock soon. ;-) Oh, didn't see that you have a vid on Hombre... Will check it out, soon. Yes, Onetti is great. I began to read his novels chronologically. I have finished last year La vida breve, so I hope I will soon read the next one. Especially La vida breve was one of the best books I've read in the last 5 years or so (well, one of the best ever ...). - I just took a look on the list I made (I told you about it) to defeat my reading slump: The best books I've read in the last years. There is another Onetti on the list: No Man's Land. And I am not sure if only the translator was better than the ones for the other Onetti books or if it really is his best written book (so far).
@@JorgesCorner Thanks for the wishes, by the way. I doubt I will ever finish that new project, but who knows. - I've watched Rosaura a las 10 today, and I adore the structure and a few other things. Liked it a lot. Juan Verdaguer could have played Fernando Pessoa very well. Thank you for the recommendation!
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Very nice video.
I can't find a copy of Blow-Up, I only have Bestiary from the Penguin collection. 🥺 Cortazar's works are quite difficult to find where I live. Only read Hopscotch so far in digital format which was too out there for me.
Alright I am going to do it, going to ask the question: Cortazar or Borges? 😈 You can say "neither" but you cannot say "both". 🤓
I have noticed that Cortázar's individual short story collections are tough to find in English, yes, and I believe some of them were not actually translated in their entirety, or the stories were scattered in different volumes.
Ah, that question... omg, I don't think I can answer. 😄 I have called both of them my favorite Argentine author at some point. Ok, let's go with this: if we're talking about their entire oeuvre, Borges; if we're talking about their short stories, Cortázar. I hope that's an acceptable response! 😃
@@JorgesCorner Yes it's a bit all over the place. Penguin did a collection Bestiary and other stories but the choice is haphazard imo. With Borges, they did Collected Fictions (available), Select Non-Fiction (very difficult to track) and Select Poems (practically impossible to find where I live) in those deluxe editions. Anyway, somehow I found them - the Non-Fiction is also really cool but with the poetry, I was completely lost. 🤣 Cortazar on the other hand, it's not easy to find. Sometimes I feel like getting the original ebook and just using Google Translate but with authors like these, it would be tantamount to heresy. 🙈
Thank you for answering. As atonement for making you face the horns of a dilemma, I offer two factoids: 😁
- Once on a Discord server I am part of, I asked top 10 books of all time. And a member said "All my books are like my children, I cannot choose between them!" Me, obsessed with categorisation, lists, rankings was left mesmerised and speechless by that beautiful answer, I cherish it.
- Your predicament is very similar to mine when I think Dickens or Wilde? And same conclusion - entire oeuvre - Dickens. But top novel by each for me - Great Expectations vs The Picture of Dorian Gray, its the latter. And then I go back to the quote above - "why choose? Maybe it's a blessing we have multiple beacons shining upon us?" 😁
Those 3 volumes of Borges are wonderful! I'm so glad you were able to find copies. 😃 There are several editions of "Obras completas" in Spanish, but I have Borges' books as published by Alianza Editorial. (More to come about this, hopefully [relatively] soon!) Thank you for sharing the quote about books being like one's children. I can totally relate to it; that's why it's always a difficult choice, especially between Borges and Cortázar. (Others are easier. For example: Sartre or Camus? It's definitely Camus for me.) I'm glad you asked the question, because it helped me to clarify to myself how I feel about these great Argentine authors!
I’m looking for novell which is kind of reincarnation story, one family is sitting by the table eating dinner and they start to say to each other different relationships as they are that time… example daughter s calling father auntie… etc…. I read it very very long time ago in Polish translation… can’t find it
Hm... It doesn't sound familiar to me. I will do some research and will let you know if I find the title! 😃 Thank you so much for watching and commenting, my friend, and have a fantastic day!