| Summary: | 碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 西班牙語文學系研究所 === 93 === The Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar is one of the most important writers in the “Boom” of contemporary Hispanic literature. His classic work, Rayuela (1963), obtained a great repercussion in the literary field. In addiction to this novel, his untiring work of creation and his specific observations of the short fiction, is a model for many short story writers. As Cortázar says, his short fiction rather belong to the fantastic literature. The subjects of his stories are always between the fiction and the reality, and it leaves us with the sensation that fiction can also be true reality. So I want to write about this subject, using his four well-known collections of short stories for our analysis, for example, Bestiario (1951), Final del juego (1956), Las armas secretas (1959) and Todos los fuegos el fuego (1966). We defined the different ways in which the fantastic element appears in his short fictions as “otherness”, and we compared “otherness” with the true reality of the characters in his stories. In addition to the classification and analysis about “otherness”, observing the reaction of characters when they face “otherness”, we also want to discuss the final result of this encounter that leads to a salvation of self or a frustration with a tragic destiny, or even more terrible: the self-destruction of the individual conscience and the death.
The present thesis, apart from the introduction and conclusion, is divided into three chapters. The first chapter: Julio Cortázar and his short fiction. The second chapter deals with “otherness” as a category of the fantastic and of the surrealism, in it we mainly discuss the connections between Julio Cortázar, the fantastic, and the surrealism; also otherness and it links to the fantastic and the surrealism. In the third chapter, “otherness” in the short fiction of Julio Cortázar, discussing four classification about otherness. 1) otherness as a wished world of the characters who try to go beyodo reality. 2) otherness as the double. 3) otherness as a dream that interferes conscience. 4) otherness as an absurd irruption in daily life and threatens the established order.
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