Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar (August 26, 1914  February 12, 1984), was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe., Gregory Rabassa, ComM (March 9, 1922  June 13, 2016) was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College., The Latin American Boom was a flourishing of literature, poetry and criticism in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, when writers from this region explored new ideas and came to international renown in a way that had not happened previously. Major figures of the boom include Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa., Libro de Manuel is a novel by Julio Cortázar , first published in 1973 . It was later translated into English by Gregory Rabassa and published in the US as A Manual for Manuel . Cortázar 's only explicitly political novel , it was written as a direct response to the escalating political repression and violence in Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America . Though it received the Medici Award , it received a generally lukewarm critical reception and was described by the author himself as `` the worst of my books . '' Describing the unfolding of a plot to kidnap a Latin American diplomat , it incorporates into the text a number of news articles reproduced from contemporary newspaper accounts of the political situation in Latin America . Cortázar directed that all the royalties from the book be used to provide assistance to the victims of political repression ., Subject: libro de manuel, Relation: original_language_of_work, Options: (A) english (B) latin (C) spanish
Output (English): spanish