%0 Journal Article %T ¡°[T]he privileged horror¡­of the constellation¡±: Cortazar¡¯s use of the Gothic in 62: A Model Kit %A Victor SAGE %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2007 %I %R 10.4000/erea.134 %X The main external evidence for the Argentine writer, Julio Cortazar¡¯s relationship to the Gothic lies in the fascinating essay, ¡°Notes sur le Gothique vu du Rio de la Plata¡±, which he wrote for the famous Cahiers de l¡¯Herne issue on Romantisme Noir. In that piece, he describes the fantastique tradition of the writers from the river River Plate, which links Argentina and Uruguay: Lugones, Quiroga, Borges, Adolfo Bioy, Silvina Ocampo and Felisberto Hernandez. Cortazar invokes the cultural isola... %U http://erea.revues.org/134