Julio Cortázar
Paperback | Pages: 564 pages Rating: 4.24 | 27486 Users | 1884 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Rayuela |
| ISBN: | 0394752848 (ISBN13: 9780394752846) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Traveler, Talita, Horacio Oliveira, La Maga, Morelli |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Translation (1967), Mikael Agricola -palkinto (2006) |
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Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures. The book is highly influenced by Henry Miller’s reckless and relentless search for truth in post-decadent Paris and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki’s modal teachings on Zen Buddhism. Cortázar's employment of interior monologue, punning, slang, and his use of different languages is reminiscent of Modernist writers like Joyce, although his main influences were Surrealism and the French New Novel, as well as the "riffing" aesthetic of jazz and New Wave Cinema. In 1966, Gregory Rabassa won the first National Book Award to recognize the work of a translator, for his English-language edition of Hopscotch. Julio Cortázar was so pleased with Rabassa's translation of Hopscotch that he recommended the translator to Gabriel García Márquez when García Márquez was looking for someone to translate his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude into English. "Rabassa's One Hundred Years of Solitude improved the original," according to García Márquez.Present Regarding Books Hopscotch
| Title | : | Hopscotch |
| Author | : | Julio Cortázar |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 564 pages |
| Published | : | February 12th 1987 by Pantheon (first published 1963) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. European Literature. Spanish Literature |
Rating Regarding Books Hopscotch
Ratings: 4.24 From 27486 Users | 1884 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books Hopscotch
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! I had to read this for a book club. I read about 80 pages of this and threw it across the room. Wish I didn't. Maybe I could've gotten more for it when I traded it in. pretentiousness wrapped/uptight faux beatness. What I remember: expat intellectuals crying over jazz records having an "artistic" time in paris. Well read guy pines for girl who doesn't catch all his references but, you know, feels things. The cover blurb makes it look like it will change your life and thenSix weeks later. There are lots of reviews to read about Hopscotch here so these are just my impressions. A much read and highly rated book. Ive given it four stars because six weeks or so after finishing it, its still with me. Plenty of images - plenty of questions - plenty of nostalgia. The principal character, Horacio, is apparently on a quest. He, and all of his Parisian friends, are looking for something in life. What is he searching for? Is he searching for himself? He would not be
Every move you make Every page you take Ill be watching you A few nights ago I dreamt a bizarre dream in which I was literally jumping from one page to another depending on the falling of the pebble-pen I kept throwing on a giant book opened at my feet. I often dream Im reading or, if it happens to be a nightmare, trying very hard to make sense of an illegible page, but this time I paid no attention to the words I was seeing, so focused I was on the game itself.When I woke up, I realized on one
Cortázar has always been a favourite of mine, and 'Hopscotch' was a novel I pored over at the age of sixteen... Though, approaching it again at the more mature age of twenty, and also reading the even denser supplementary section, I... had mixed feelings.The novel's purpose is to subvert the form of the novel and to create an open-ended narrative... Ok, the idea for the structure is admirable, I just think that the actual writing, especially in the first section, is pretty passé by today's
Table of InstructionsThis review consists of two reviews. The first can be read in a normal fashion. Start from 1 and go to 12, at the close of which there are three garish little stars which stand for the words The End. Consequently, the reader may ignore what follows with a clean conscience.The second should be read by beginning with 1 and then following the sequence indicated at the end of each sentence or paragraph. For example, if you see > 24, then proceed to paragraph/sentence # 24
Julio Cortazar - HopscotchDon't read this book. For real now, don't. Throw it away or, better still, burn it. Either you will burn it or it will burn you. Seriously, it will tear you open and feast on your guts while all you'll be able to do is look around in over-saturated numbness. I envy those who weren't moved by it. I envy and pity them at the same time, for the same reason: I've felt something they have not.I've talked before about books that read you as much as you read them, but this is
1. "A General Idea is Enough" (First Impressions)When I started reading this novel, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the writing. (-871)Each short (!) chapter seemed like an extrapolation on a single image in a photo album or a contribution to a literary almanac. Unlike a chronological album of holiday snaps, it didn't seem to matter much in what order the images were displayed. I adapted to jumping around the chronology pretty quickly.The first part of the book was a panoramic view of the
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