Poetics of fire in Rayuela by Julio Cortázar

Abstract

In Rayuela, Cortázar's capital work, fire as a metaphor is extremely important, since it becomes the expression of various fundamental aspects to understand the work, from the search proposed by the protagonist Horacio Oliveira, or the journey of an essential character in the message of the work, like Morelli, to the very foundations of Cortázar's literary theory, linked in turn with characteristics that define the main features of surrealism, such as subversion, the relevance of poetry, experimentation with language or reflection on time , also reflected in the multiple city prisms in Rayuela