Keats’ Chameleon, Cortázar’s Axolotl

Vida y Cartas de John Keats  / Life and Letters of John Keats 

The famed Argentinian author Julio Cortázar was a perspicacious reader and avid lover of all things Keats—so much so that he communed with the poet by writing a six hundred-page biography-autobiography, a hybrid memoir intertwining both their lives. Throughout the 1950s, Cortázar also translated many Keats poems and letters, introducing Lord Houghton’s seminal Life and Letters of John Keats to a Latin American audience for the first time. Join English professor Olivia Loksing Moy, of the City University of New York, Lehman College, for a virtual discussion on Julio Cortázar’s translations, the Hispanophone reception of John Keats, and a consideration of Keats’ surprising afterlife preceding the Latin American Boom.

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