How To Write A Blow Up Literary Analysis

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In a narrative, there is an expected style of syntax and diction that readers prepare themselves to experience. Although these rules are not always followed, it is rare to find the amount of shifting perspectives and revisions from the main narrator, as seen in Julio Cortázar’s “Blow Up.” The role of a narrator is meant to bridge the gap between the reader and the story itself, and without the narrator’s competence at telling their account a reader is left to fumble for their own connections and conclusions to the story. “Blow Up” is continuously being retold and rewritten with every sentence the narrator delivers. The narration is depicted as an active thought process from beginning to end through the intrusive nature of self-aware comments and distractions found in the reality the narrator is currently in, for examples the constant presence of clouds and birds. Through this cyclical narration of “Blow Up” by Julio Cortázar, the mimicry of subconscious thought forces the reader to question the validity and reliability of the events described by the narrator. …show more content…

With every story, every moment there are witnesses with perspectives blurred and skewed but what they wish to see and what they think they see, and in this admission that this will soles be his truth the narrator frees himself from the need to convey it is the actual truth of the situation. Although this provides the view of a self-aware narrator, where his biases are not only analyzed by the reader but him himself, the focus on what truth means to the narrator leads readers to question how close to the actual events this account will

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