Los aspectos fantásticos en "Noche boca arriba", "Continuidad de los parques" y "Axolotl" de Julio Cortázar

Sammanfattning: This essay deals with the fantasy aspects that exist in work of Julio Cortázar. It is knownthat Cortázar frequently uses certain narrative tools in order to make a story to one of thefantastic kind. The purpose of the study is therefore to plunge into some of the fantasyaspects that are included in his work. The questions that the thesis answers are: which narrative techniques does the author use in the chosen stories to make these storiesfantastic? How does he utilize these techniques in the three stories? The corpus consistsof a short synopsis of the plots of the stories “Axolotl”, “Noche boca arriba” and“Continuidad de los parques” from the compilation Final del juego (1956). The methodof analysis used for the three stories consists of a reading that focuses on narrative aspects,including the characteristics of the fantasy genre. The results show role of the aspects of fantasy such as animalization, anthropomorphism, and identity change in “Axolotl”. Inaddition, the narrating voice is revealed to be an important literary aspect in this story. When it comes to "Noche boca arriba" and "Continuidad de los parques" the presence ofparallel realitiesis noticeable. Both of those story worlds are equally possible andimportant, according tothe theory of possible worlds (PW-theory). In "Continuidad de los parques", we can clearly see two worlds that experience a fusion in the moment they collide. Again, according to the theory of possible worlds, both are equally important. As a theoretical tool, Tzvetan Todorov's theory of the fantastic is used. The application of Todorov's theory is useful for the study as it serves as the basis in order to define the threestories aspart of the fantasy genre.