ABSTRACT
An experimentalist whose early career was about dilettantism and whose later work is infused by political commitment, Julio Cortázar was the author of Bestiary (1965), We Loved Glenda So Much and Other Stories (1983), and Blow Up and Other Stories (1985), as well as the magnum opus Hopscotch (1963). This story is about the place of the artist in society. It is also a document about the role of Jewish activists in the so-called Dirty War—la guerra sucia—in Argentina. A considerable number of desaparacidos were of Jewish descent. Thus Cortázar's character, Laura Beatrfz Bonaparte Bruschtein, is an archetype.
Although I don't think its really necessary to say so, the first clipping is real and the second one imaginary.
