Julio Cortázar, Los premios

Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Cara Levey, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1960

Places

Argentina (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Written during 1958 and published in 1960,

Los Premios

[

The Winners

]

narrates the story of a random group of people from Buenos Aires brought together by their national lottery wins. This heterogeneous combination of people represents many different social sectors of Argentinian society: from the

petit-bourgeois

couple Lucio and Nora, to the very humble Presutti family. When they are all summoned to the “London Bar”, instead of being awarded a cheque, they are told that their prize is a cruise on the

Malcolm

(not exactly a luxury liner, but rather a “carguero”, or “barco mixto”, a ship designed to carry both passengers and freight; Cortázar, 1960, 65). The cruise will last “three or four months” (1960, 24) but the destination remains a mystery. Once on board, the…

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Citation: Orloff, Carolina. "Los premios". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 November 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35573, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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