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Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. Written in Paris, it was published in Spanish in 1963 and in English in 1966. For the first U.S. edition, translator Gregory Rabassa split the inaugural National Book Award in the translation category.
Hopscotch. Julio Cortázar, Gregory Rabassa (translator) 4.21. 43,686 ratings3,532 reviews. 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."
Oct 13, 2022 · Hopscotch is a novel that can be read in two ways: linearly or nonlinearly, according to the author's instructions. The novel explores the themes of time, memory, identity, and narrative through the character of Horacio Oliveira, a writer and expatriate in Paris.
Feb 4, 2022 · 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 kepper of a circus cat who can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum.Hopscotch, written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel.
In Julio Cortázar. Cortázar’s masterpiece, Rayuela (1963; Hopscotch ), is an open-ended novel, or antinovel; the reader is invited to rearrange the different parts of the novel according to a plan prescribed by the author. It was the first of the “boom” of Latin American novels of the 1960s to gain international attention.… Read More.
The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation...
Aug 5, 2014 · Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.
