Voyages: Julio Cortázar and the feminine imaginary

Abstract

Far from the brilliance of Marco Polo, the silk of Lord Byron and the aura of Livingstone, the day-to-day traveler transport his fleeting life through the streets and avenues of the largest cities of the world, far away from glory. The argentine writer Julio Cortázar in his story Manuscrito hallado en un bolisillo compared the great adventurer to the traveler who seated beside the window in any Parisian subway train watches the passing landscape besieged by his memory. In this hemorrhage of broken miracles which is the city, the traveler searches incessantly the reflection of a woman who is, at the same time, the woman sought. Like a medieval knight, Cortázar