Hopscotch

Julio Cortazar

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1966 - Fiction - 564 pages

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, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.

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User Review  - Geoff - Goodreads

UPDATE: I'm jumping ship on this one. This has nothing to do with the quality of the writing, which is high-quality wordsmanship, and I'm enjoying the leapfrog structure- but the Ultra-Amplified ...

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User Review  - Patrick McCoy - Goodreads

I first heard about Julio Cortazar through the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai who was a fan of his and cited him as an influence for his films along with several other writers including fellow ...

About the author

JULIO CORTAZAR was born in 1914 in Belgium to Argentinean parents, grew up in Buenos Aires, and moved to Paris in 1951. An acclaimed and influential novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, and essayist, he was also a human rights advocate and amateur jazz musician. He died in Paris in 1984.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Hopscotch; Modern Writers Series; Volume 0 of Pantheon Modern Writers Series
• Author: Julio Cortazar
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1966
• ISBN: 0394752848, 9780394752846
• Length: 564 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary