I have the same tastes that I admired Julio Cortázar: emperdernido reader, lover of solitude, jazz enthusiast, distrustful of "reality" which has been given to the world dreams, cigarettes, whiskey and walk the streets aimlessly. Some people say I look like him when I talk about in contrast to his beautiful baritone voice and dragged Rs. Sometimes I dream I am with him speaking in an empty terrace and full of autumn leaves. You might even say that I feel identified with these words spoken in the legendary TV Features captained and missed by Joaquín Soler Serrano and gone: "I have very bad taste in terms of feelings, I am easily sentimental."
Cortázar was a music lover since childhood. In the family house on Calle Rodríguez Peña his sister and his mother listened to classical music and tangos. To him, classical music, yes, but the tango did not appeal the least. It will take time to discover it, which is already in Paris in the early sixties. In his teenage years he woke up to a music that came from the United States and in Argentina was considered Barbarian: jazz. Bolivarsienses be in the years when deepen his taste for this. In these years of jazz Bolivar will therefore be another way, as he was reading, to escape the provincial isolation.
Sometime Cortazar said he began to hear and follow jazz in 1928, when it was about fourteen years old and through the radio. At that time and in Buenos Aires or Argentina had a band that dared to embark on this type of composition and performance. With the radio began withholding the names of musicians and performers: Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong , etc. "The first jazz I heard on the radio was almost drowned by the shrieks of horror from my family, so naturally qualified black music. They were unable to find the melody and rhythm." However, Cortázar it was very clear from the beginning. Jazz offered something that was lacking in the other music: improvisation, his ability metacreativa, its takes, its spontaneous movement. Sometimes the writer has referred in this regard, the poverty of the tango, and we can extend to other formal music, about the richness of jazz. This precocious, over time, will expand in knowledge of hot music, while at maturity the writer became a real expert in the field.
jazz addition, the effect of contaminant, will leave his mark in his own handwriting, as he himself acknowledged: "My job as a writer is given in a way where there is a kind of rhythm that has nothing to see the rhyme and alliteration, no. It's kind of beat, swing, and jazz musicians say, a kind of rhythm which, if not in what I do, I am proof that does not work. " But such periods are not alone in their sense stylistic or strategic but also in the thematic worth the underlined reference to his story Tracker, based on the life of Charlie Parker, belonging to the volume secret weapons, which also marked a point watershed in his career and his conception of life. Add the presence of jazz in Rayuela or Around the Day in Eighty Worlds ("Around the piano of Thelonious Monk"). The truth is that it's fairly easy to guess why there are such links between jazz and literature Cortazarian. Jazz, as I said, his speech gun improvisation and spontaneity, which are close to the irrational, as is well known territory, it is particularly prone to Cortázar, hence the affinity with this music comparable to the concept of automatic writing. Breton, Aragon, Crevel, "jazz gave me surreal to me the equivalent in music, the music did not need to score."
Yesterday I went to have a dream. Cortázar and I were playing in a jazz band on a glorienta nineteenth century. Nobody was listening. The floor was full of autumn leaves.
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