Misticismo laico en los tiempos de la contracultura: Edward Stachura y Julio Cortázar

Abstract

Lay Mysticism in the Counetrculture Era: Edward Stachura and Julio Cortázar
When checking the psychology of the protagonists in the fiction of two writers from the same period of the sixties and seventies of the 20th century – the Polish writer Edward Stachura and the Argentinian Julio Cortázar, it comes out that they both writers share the eagerness to reach a transcendental sphere of happiness, where life is more authentic than by the middle class standards. They are both inspired by the first Avant-Garde movements, as well as by the countercultural tendencies of their times. Their protagonists dream about symbolical places – like the kibbutz of desire in Cortázar´s Hospscotch – where the man could eventually feel free from middle class morals and submission imposed by the capitalist system.