A buyer from Argentina has paid $36,000 for a manuscript of works, including seven unpublished stories, by legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortázar at an auction in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. The bundle of 60-year-old sheets bound together with metal fasteners and bearing the inscription “Julio Cortázar. Historias de Cronopios y de Famas.
FILE - A security guard stands near a large photo of late writer Julio Cortazar at an exhibit marking the 100-year anniversary of his birth at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 26, 2014. A bundle of 60-year-old pages of Cortazar´s writings was sold at auction on Thursday, October 12, 2023, by the Zorrilla de Montevideo auction house.
Of the total stories, 35 were published in “Cronopios and Famas.” Some were printed exactly as found in the manuscript that was once thought to be lost forever. It was discovered in Montevideo last year, while others underwent editorial changes. Three other stories were published in magazines before Cortázar’s death in 1984.Salman Rushdie was stabbed onstage last year.
In 1952, Cortázar sent a manuscript titled “Stories of Cronopios and Famas” from Paris to Luis María Baudizzone, the head of Argentine Argos publishing. Baudizzone, a personal friend of the writer, who at the time had only published his first novel, “Bestiario,” never responded, according to Cortázar scholars.
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