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Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires (Spanish: Fantomas Contra los Vampiros Multinacionales) is a graphic novel by Julio Cortázar published in 1975. The book is loosely based on Issue #201 of the Mexican comic book series Fantomas: The Elegant Menace, which features a cameo appearance from Cortázar.
- Julio Cortázar
- 1975
Before long, Fantomas, Sontag, and Cortázar are working together to thwart an evil far greater than the comic’s “bibliocide.” If this seems complicated, just wait. In our world there is a (fictional) character named Fantomas. He first appeared as a criminal mastermind (named Fantômas) in a series of forty French pulp novels published ...
Jan 21, 2015 · Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (narrated by Julio Cortázar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly?
This paper reads Fantômas less in terms of his much-debated effects on the avantgarde art scene of the day, focusing instead on his role as an integral part of a serialized mass culture of modernity. Both in literature and in film, Fantômas embodies the contingency of modern mass culture.
First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in Latin America and his cameo appearance in issue number 201 of the Mexican comic book series Fantomas: The Elegant Menace.
- August 01, 2014
First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar’s genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in Latin America and his cameo appearance in issue number 201 of the Mexican comic book series Fantomas: The Elegant ...
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in the argentine master's fantomas versus the multinational vampires: an attainable utopia (fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales), literary superfriends (cortázar, sontag, paz, and moravia) battle the forces of capitalist excess and international bibliocide. inspired by his participation in the second russell tribunal (1975, brussels ...
