Julio Cortázar : des débuts en littérature sous le signe de la controverse (1947)
Julio Cortázar: Early Career in Literature with Controversy as a Keynote

Summary/Abstract: In 1947, Julio Cortázar writes “Teoría del túnel,” an essay in which he expresses his desire to overhaul literature, emphasizing the need for the writer, whom he refers to as a “rebel,” to distance himself from certain literary models which he considers fossilised. The essay comes through as an invitation to change one’s writing habits and, at the same time, strive to develop a language capable of depicting man in all his complexity. The following paper demonstrates that El Examen (1950) and Diario de Andrés Fava — a diary initially meant to be part of the novel — are experimental fields that enable the author to explore the possibilities of transgressing the traditional literary codes and implement the proposals he had put forward a few years before in “Teoría del túnel.”

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