The place of Julio Cortázar in literature Argentina has been successively consolidated, crystallized, refuted, emptying recovered. And that happened not only on, but also in the synchronous form of various disputes and tensions reading. Cortázar's relationship with politics was particularly conducive to the reductionism which served to sanctify or to condemn, either on behalf of the biographer mechanism or whether on behalf of certain stereotypes writer. So an essay like Carolina Orloff, rigorous and restful, is today indispensable. What it is to rethink Cortazar, and even to consider seriously what exactly talking when we talk about literature and politics. Martin Kohan