name: Julio Cortázar
birth_date: 1914-08-26 00:00:00
death_date: 1984-02-12 00:00:00
genres: Poetry, Short Stories, Literature & Fiction
influences: Stéphane Mallarmé, Roberto Arlt, André Breton, Leopoldo Marechal, José Lezama Lima, Jules Verne, André Gide, Franz Kafka, Ambrose Bierce, Octavio Paz, James Jo, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, Charlie Parker, Jean Cocteau, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce
avg_rating: 4.18
ratings_count: 200318
about: Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.