Journal to the Journal
"One man took a tram after buying the newspaper and putting it under his arm. Half an hour later with the same daily falls under one arm. But it is not the same newspaper, is now a pile of leaflets that Mr, abandoned in a bench seat. Is hardly alone in the bank, the pile of leaflets again become a daily until they found an elderly woman, reads it, and leaves into a pile of leaflets. Then he takes her home and the way it used to pack half a kilo of spinach, which is what the newspapers that serve these exciting metamorphosis.
By Julio Cortazar
the title gives us idea of everyday, in a figurative sense, as usual, literally, the newspaper. The text is short, applying his own theory to literary subgenre story, "he wins by knockout while the novel won on points." In its external structure, compared to the story "with a sphere because it is something that has a cycle perfect and flawless, something that begins and ends well as the areas that any molecule may be beyond their limits and that it should close. "
The protagonist of the story has it the newspaper, which is essential for each person listed as the first day, until they finished reading loses interest and becomes simply printed. Reaches this point the loss, the last reader (the elderly) is used to cover their daily needs: pack strapped to the Swiss. Include the grading operations. They pass as it makes the text and are pointing to the emergence of different people.
Often, as in this text, the rhythm of the narrative, its simplicity in the presentation of the issue is a significant show of anxiety, excitement or a disappointment. It is also frequent use of periphrasis, anaphora, repetition, "is hardly alone in the bank" that create a surround charm, and a growing spiritualization of objects.
Carlos Maggi says: "The writing is lively Julio Cortazar as a boy." Emphasizes colloquial and intimate settings that often are true statements or speeches interiors, deep thinking becoming narrator. Ricardo Pallares argues that the simplicity of language does not warn a rigorous architectural work with the word.
In conclusion, we can say that Julio Cortazar was a very accurate observer of such immediate reality that is composed of words and gestures banal, trivial acts without consistency, but was also an extremely vigilant spirit for all that the man in denouncing a wonderful dimension.
