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"It is to my namesake that I owe the title of this book and to Lester Young the freedom to have it transformed without wishing to offend the global saga of Phileas Fogg esq." --incipit


"... Cortazar (whose photographs on pp. 202-9 recall the disquieting photographs of dolls by Hans Bellmer [1902-75])."--The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's: A Critical Anthology (1998) by Jane Marjorie Rabb


"Throughout the nineteenth century, refuge in metaphysics was the best antidote for timor mortis, the miseries of the hic et nunc, and the sense of the absurd by which we define ourselves and the world. Then came Jules Laforgue." --"Julios en acción", a short text by Cortázar which cites "Encore à cet astre" by Laforgue

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Around the Day in Eighty Worlds (La Vuelta al Día en Ochenta Mundos) is a book by Julio Cortázar released and published in two separate volumes in 1967. It pays homage to Cortázar's biggest literary influences while narrating new developments in the world of music during the 1960s, modern art (Dada and Surrealism) and some of the events in regard to the expanding involvement of the United States in other countries. The book also reveals for the first time one of Cortázar's pastimes in Paris: playing the trumpet.

Contents

Illustrations

As of August 2019, the list of illustrations in this book was not documented online.

Illustrations include The Scream by Munch, Richard Zaris, Folon

Soundtrack

All tracks are mentioned in the book.

Lester Young - Three Little Words – [1] Charlie Parker - Lady, be good – [2] - Yo podría bailar ese sillón – dijo Isadora

Fred Astaire (& Ginger Rodgers) – Let yourself go (de Follow The Fleet (1936) ) [3] Clifford

Clifford Brown & Max Roach - (I Don't Stand a) Ghost of a Chance (With You) - [4] Gardel

Gardel – Razzano – La cordobesa - [5] Gardel – Razzano – El sapo y la comadreja – [6] Carlos Gardel – De mi tierra – [7] Carlos Gardel – Mi noche triste (1917) - [8] / Mi noche triste (1930) [9] Carlos Gardel – La copa del olvido (1921) - [10] Carlos Gardel – El taita del arrabal - [11] Carlos Gardel – Flor de fango (1919) - [12] Carlos Gardel – Anclao en París - [13] Carlos Gardel – Mano a mano – [14] Louis enormísimo cronopio

Louis Armstrong - When its sleepy time down south (1942) [15] Louis Armstrong - Muskat Ramble - [16] Louis Armstrong - When your lover has gone (1931) - [17] Louis Armstrong - Confessin’ (1930) - [18] Louis Armstrong - Thankful (1936) - [19] Louis Armstrong - Dusky Stevedore - [20] Louis Armstrong - Mahogany Hall Stomp - [21] La vuelta al piano de Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk - Pannonica (1965) – [22] Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk - [23] Del gesto que consiste en ponerse el dedo índice en la sien y moverlo como quien atornilla y desatornilla

Carlos Gardel - Victoria - [24] Razones de la cólera

Tata Cedrón – La Cruz del Sur - [25] Carlos Gardel (1928) – Muñeca Brava - [26] Melancolía de las maletas

Jimmy Heath – My ideal - [27] Jimmy Heath Sextet – Really Big! (1960) - [28] Nat Adderley Sextet – Much Brass (1959) - [29] Sam Jones plus 10 – The Chant (1961) - [30] Blue Mitchell – I'll close my eyes (1960) - [31] Jimmy Heath Sextet – The Thumper - [32] Morelliana, siempre

Charlie Parker – Out of Nowhere - [33]

Synopsis

Volume I
  • Chapter 01: This is How it Starts (with a pre-introductory dedication to Pablo Neruda and Aragon)
  • A touching memoir dedicated to Jules Verne and Lester Young without offending Phileas Fogg, about Charlie Parker, Stéphane Mallarmé, Passepartout, Aouda, Man Ray, Robert Lebel, Marcel Duchamp and Antonin Artaud.
  • How to dance a shirtless girl (short story / mini poem)
  • (Encore)
  • Chapter 03: Julios in Action
  • Jules Laforgue, Marcel Duchamp's drawing for the poem Encore a cet astre, Le Monde (thursday edition), Moulin a cafe, Dada exhibition in Paris (11.12.66), the first painting he saw by order of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Nu descendant un escalier) and a photograph of Julio playing the trumpet.
  • Chapter 05: Theme for San Jorge
  • Chapter 09: I fall... then emerge.
  • Chapter 10: The smiler with the knife under the cloak
  • Chapter 17: Clifford
Volume II
  • Chapter 01: What Happens, Minerva?
  • Happenings, Benjamin Patterson's Lawful Dance, Paik's Omnibus Music No. 1, Le Monde, Dick Higgins, Thomas Shmidt, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Tetsumi Kudo.
  • Chapter 03: Around the Piano of Thelonious Monk
  • Chapter 05: On to Lezama Lima's Arrival, on José Lezama Lima
  • Chapter 09: Mallarmé's Tombeau
  • Chapter 13: The Nobel Art
  • Chapter 14: The Most Profound Caress

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