Millions of readers in the world have never set foot in Parque Lezama, however they know it through reading "Sobre heroes y tumbas" ("About heroes and graves"), where Sabato imagined his Alejandra. The same happens with Borges's Palermo, Roberto Arlt's Flores, Marechal's Villa Crespo and his Adan Buenosayres or Villa del Parque, home of the great Julio Cortazar.
Get to know the city. And it's People!
I had written probably an excessive amount of storys, of wich an overwhellming majority are story's of the fantastic type. As usual, the problem, is in to discover what the fantastic element is all about.It's useless to get a dictonary, i wouldn't bother. There will be a definition, wich will be aparently flawless, but once we've read about the imponderable elements of the fantastic, in literature as in reality, those will escape that definition. Don't know anymore who was the one that speaking about poetry once said that poetry is what gets left out when one tries to define it. I believe that same definition could apply to the fantastic element, in a way that instead of trying to get a perceptive definition about it, in literature or out of it, i think that's best that each one of you, like i do it myself, give's a chance to consult your own inner world, your own life experience and arise personally the problem of that situation's, of that sudden appearence's, of that so called coincidences on wich our intelligence and our sensibility have the impression that the laws we commonly obbey dont quite apply, or apply in some way they leave room to an exception.
Julio Cortazar
El Sentimiento de lo Fantastico
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