5/24/2023 0 Comments Casa tomada julio cortazar english![]() ![]() ‘Las Babas del Diablo’ (The Droolings of the Devil), a short story from Cortázar’s Las Armas Secretas, served as Michelangelo Antonioni’s inspiration for his 1966 film Blow-Up. Many years after reading ‘Casa tomada’, I created my own version of the story as a short film. ![]() While not intended as a commentary on the political situation in the writer’s native Argentina at the time, the nature of the tale – which concerns an intense and claustrophobic relationship between siblings – means it has been interpreted by many readers as an allegory for Peronism. ![]() Cortázar claimed that he sat down to write this intense story after a nightmare caused him to tumble head-first out of bed. In ‘Casa tomada’, the opening tale of his short story collection Bestiario, the main characters, a brother and sister, find themselves forced to flee their home from a non-violent yet unrelenting force, which the writer leaves undefined, expressed only through noise. ![]() I deeply admire Cortázar’s ability to depict fear in its purest state. Bestiario, 1951 Las Armas Secretas (The Secret Weapons), 1959 Rayuela (Hopscotch), 1963 ![]()
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