Charles de gaulle biography cortazar
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How Argentina’s Disappeared Took Center scen in Paris
The march began in near silence. Only the repetitive sound of a saxophone rang out as the procession moved through central Paris, making its way from the Pantheon, where France buries its great, to the Place de la Concorde, the biggest public square in the French capital. One bygd one, 100 10-foot-high banners hoisted on tall bamboo poles appeared, carried by some 300 activists.
Like a veritable flotilla of sails, they fluttered in the winter wind. One was in both French and Spanish: “Ou sont-ils? Donde estan?” (“Where are they?”) Another was wordless — just a canvas painting of two eyes, wide open as if in shock. Each banner stood for an artist who had been “disappeared,” presumably killed, bygd a military regime half a world away — in Argentina.
The protest on Nov. 14, 1981, organized by the International Association for the Defense of Artist Victims of Repression in the World (AIDA), drew between 5,000 and 7,000 people, includ
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The Pursuer
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Julio Cortázar
1959
Introduction
In 1959, the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar published a short story entitled "El Perseguidor" ("The Pursuer") that vividly brought to life the bebop scene of 1950s Paris. Taking the final months in the life of the prodigious jazz musician Johnny Carter as its subject, the story is in many ways an exploration of the career and personal life of the famous alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, the most influential musician of the style of jazz music known as bebop. "The Pursuer" offers a glimpse into Johnny's personal life, from his severe drug addiction and psychological instability to his profound philosophical insights, and it follows the key moments of Johnny's relationship with his biographer and critic Bruno, the narrator of the story.
With its daring narrative structure, which uses shifting verb ten
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