Misticismo laico en los tiempos de la contracultura: Edward Stachura y Julio Cortázar
Lay Mysticism in the Counetrculture Era: Edward Stachura and Julio Cortázar

Summary/Abstract: When checking the psychology of the protagonists in the fiction of two writers from the same period of the sixties and seventies of the 20th century – the Polish writer Edward Stachura and the Argentinian Julio Cortázar, it comes out that they both writers share the eagerness to reach a transcendental sphere of happiness, where life is more authentic than by the middle class standards. They are both inspired by the first Avant-Garde movements, as well as by the countercultural tendencies of their times. Their protagonists dream about symbolical places – like the kibbutz of desire in Cortázar´s Hospscotch – where the man could eventually feel free from middle class morals and submission imposed by the capitalist system.

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