The Cortázar's spatial imagination

Abstract

Literature may be a creative strategy to preserve life through the invention of an artifice. In bis story ―The other sky‖, by means of two opposed series, Julio Cortázar proposed the fantasy of a narrator who only intensifies his sensations after a ―reverie‖ which implies living simultanously in two cities and in two centuries. In Buenos Aires and in Paris, in the XIX and XX centuries, with two wars threatening each situations, there is a ―flaneur‖ narrator that dreams unimportant
dreams, the only way to keep himselfalive and, at the same time, safe from every trace of trascedentalism. When the secret language of horror, incarnated in a silhouette that, without being mentioned correspond to Isidore Ducasse-Conde de Lautréamont, becomes an omnipresent menace, the closing of the story takes place and therefore the closing of the desire.