Julio Cortázar was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1914 to Argentine parents. After WWI, his family moved to a suburb of Buenos Aires, where he attended school, completed a novel at the age of nine, and went on to become a teacher. Presence, his first collection of poems, was published in 1938, and “House Taken Over,” his first short story, was published in 1946 in a journal which was edited by Jorge Luis Borges. Cortázar was outspoken against Juan Perón, who was to be elected president of Argentina in 1946, and many of his stories reference the political atmosphere under Perón’s leadership. He moved to Paris on a government scholarship to study translation and soon after, published his...
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