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Time –among other components– has refined the boundaries of the disciplines for them not to touch each other, creating distant realms that don’t mirror reality anymore. Nevertheless, there still be common places suitable for arts and sciences and it is necessary to rebuild on them, and to make them discuss again. This essay intends to reconsider the role of the intellectual, exemplifying it through the figure of Julio Cortázar, to offer a new dimension of it: a non-individual and elitist intellectual, but divulgative and collective. This will give rise to the conclusions that will claim to give an account of the intersection present between literature and science, bestowing upon literature not only the ability of acting as a scientific disseminator, but also the responsibility of establishing a change o paradigm in which both disciplines keep the same pace.