Hopscotch

6.7	Listal rating

Buy at Amazon.com

Written by

Julio Cortazar

Lists

9 votes

Ranking Every Book I've Ever Read/Reading List (173 items)
list by m08221196

Published 5 months, 1 week ago

10 comments

3 votes

Latin American (13 items)
list by Caraccioli

Published 6 years, 5 months ago

1 comment

1 votes

latin american literature at its best (15 items)
list by cudion

Published 4 weeks ago

View all Hopscotch lists

Reviews

Hopscotch

6 years, 5 months ago at Jan 9 9:19

Caraccioli

In 1963, Júlio Cortazár achieve world fame with the publication of Rayuela, and became one of the main figures of the Latin American literary boom.
This book works as some kind of proto-hipertext, and Cortazár surprises the reader by having a "Table of Instructions" where he explains that "In its own way, this book consists of many books, but two books above all."
To start reading... read more

View all Hopscotch reviews

Description: 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 Bue ... (more)

Manufacturer : Pantheon
Release date : 12 February 1987
ISBN-10 : 0394752848 | ISBN-13: 9780394752846

Julio Cortazar (1), SPLALit (1)

Join Listal to add your own lists, reviews, tags, pictures and videos to this Book

Update feed

cudion added this to a list 4 weeks ago

latin american literature at its best (15 books items)

m08221196 added this to a list 5 months, 1 week ago

Ranking Every Book I've Ever Read/Reading List (173 books items)

Caraccioli added this to a list 6 years, 5 months ago

Latin American (13 books items)

Caraccioli posted a review 6 years, 5 months ago

Hopscotch

“In 1963, Júlio Cortazár achieve world fame with the publication of Rayuela, and became one of the main figures of the Latin American literary boom.

This book works as some kind of proto-hipertext, and Cortazár surprises the reader by having a "Table of Instructions" where he explains that "In its own way, this book consists of many books, but two books above all."

To start reading we're presented with two options, to read the book in the normal way up to the chapter 56, or follow the order indicated at the end of each chapter, going back and forward, starting from chapter 73.

The key character is Horacio Oliveira a bohemian argentine living in Paris, and his girlfriend "La Maga". The book presents episodes of Oliveira's life independent of the chronological” read more

Hopscotch

Lists

Reviews

Hopscotch

Recommend this to a friend

Update feed