Fotografía, cine y traducción en“Las babas del diablo”

Abstract

In this article, I analyze the short story "Blow-up" by Julio Cortázar from a visual point ofview. This text's central hypothesis is that Cortázar relates writing, photography and cinema in order to put into play the connection between art, subject and reality. This link is mediated by technique, specifically by apparatuses such as the photographic camera and the typewriter. Cortázar associates photography and writing through the concept of translation, constructing a protagonist that is at the same time an observer and a letrado. This protagonist, first a photographic subject, becomes an involuntary film spectator.