Julio Cortazar on John Keats

"In Imagen de John Keats, renowned Argentinian author Julio Cortázar creates a unique dialogue between himself and British Romantic poet John Keats, marked by all the playfulness and erudition characteristic of his fiction. In this little-known work, written in 1952 but only published posthumously, Cortázar surprises his readers by staging various fresh encounters: intense depictions of friendships among artists, transcontinental, intellectual and touristic travel, and profound meditations on poetry and poetics. Cortázar's biography displays a singular kinship with Keats, as they walk side by side in constant conversation across boundaries of chronological time and geographic space. Selections drawn from the six hundred-page original are published here in English for the first time, accompanied by an essay exploring the dynamics of collaborative translation."--Supplied by publisher.