Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Carroll and Cortázar

Reading Rayuela, I could realize that Júlio Cortázar shares some viewpoints with Lewis Carroll, they both seem to believe that objectivity can be reached by being subjective (open minded) as I already wrote with Carroll.
On the other hand Cortázar talks about chaos, he said chaos is a way to reach a new order, we can see it in the character of la Maga, who doesn't seem to care about anything, she just lives her life carelessly, she ignores that everything has got a reason. She just didn't care. She contrasts with Morelli, who is an intellectual enclosed in his attempts to understand life, trapped in them. La Maga represents the madness which Morelli lacks, becausehe believes that the reason is the only route to achieve his goals. That´s the objectivity wrongly applied which Carroll talks about.

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