The New Yorker: Fiction

Ben Lerner Reads Julio Cortázar

Nov 1, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Qotasar's Story in the Name of Bobby
01:40 • 2min
3
In the Name of Bobby, by Julio Cortasa
03:55 • 5min
4
'It Wasn't in the Day That She Was Mean to Him When He Was Asleep'
08:35 • 2min
5
Bobby's Nightmare
10:36 • 6min
6
Do You Dream Ugly Things or Not?
16:40 • 4min
7
The Long Knife
20:56 • 2min
8
Reading in the Name of Bobby by Julio Cortasa
22:49 • 2min
9
What's the Connection Between Bobby's Obsession With the Knife and the Aunts?
24:46 • 2min
10
Do You Get the Sensation That She's Reassuring for Bobby?
26:55 • 1min
11
The Long Knife
28:25 • 2min
12
The Gun That Goes Off
30:49 • 3min
13
I Think It's Impossible Not to Wonder What's Being Expressed in the Dream
33:30 • 3min
14
What Do You Think the Mother Means?
36:42 • 3min
15
What's the Story Telling Process?
39:26 • 2min
16
Is It Possible to Read That Ending as if Bobby Has Killed His Mother With the Long Knife?
41:00 • 2min
17
I Think It's a Black Holla of Primal Forces
42:50 • 3min
18
The Trinitarian Formulation of the Mother and the Aunt and the Son
45:28 • 2min
19
Is There a Political Context for This?
47:40 • 2min
20
The Only Thing That Stands Out for Me Is the Missing Fathers
49:29 • 2min
21
Cortesar's Compositional Process
51:01 • 2min
22
Can You Imagine a Sequel in Which Bobby Goes on to Live a Happy Life?
53:08 • 3min