Sunday, March 13, 2011

Swollen Finger Just Before Cuticle



Prepare for publishing a book to be titled Forcola Cortázar and books. So I have a couple of weeks at the Library Juan March Foundation, where are the books in his personal library to his widow, Aurora Bernardez, donated to the foundation after his death.

Just over four thousand copies, which show the reader Cortázar: pages profusely annotated, discussed and filled with crosses, underlining, brackets, and all type of signals that dialogue with the author.

"Eye!", Sometimes written in the margins. "Ça!". "Well!", Or respond to any questions or comments, as expressed in the text.
The annotations are written, either, French, English and English, and with pencil, pen, multi-color or marker. Below is
edition of Complete Poems of Salinas, which notes that read in a restaurant full of vampires, "everyone looks at customers as if they calculate the red blood cells," he jokes.


There are also numerous books on, for many of its writers, friends, Lezama Lima, Carlos Fuentes, Augusto Monterroso, Pizarnik, Gabriel García Márquez, Onetti or-down-Neruda and Octavio Paz.



The other day we also find dried flowers pressed between the pages of his copy of The flowers of evil in Baudelaire. A very appropriate book, of course, to make herbarium.


a couple of years ago I made a page for the Instituto Cervantes, dedicated to the library of Julio Cortázar, seen here.

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