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Hopscotch : A Novel

by Julio Cortázar, Gregory Rabassa
Hopscotch : A Novel - Thryft
Hopscotch : A Novel - Thryft

Non-linear storytelling in surreal adventures.

Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar can be a good read for those who enjoy experimental literature and surreal adventures. The non-linear storytelling and unconventional structure add to the unique experience of the novel. The characters are complex and mysterious, drawing the reader into their world. The exploration of philosophical themes and the use of imagery are other notable features that make this book memorable. Overall, this book is a must-read for fans of postmodern literature.

  • National Book Award for Translation (1967)
  • Mikael Agricola -palkinto (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Hopscotch : A Novel

by Julio Cortázar, Gregory Rabassa
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ISBN: 9780394752846
Authors: Julio Cortázar, Gregory Rabassa
Publisher: Pantheon
Date of Publication: 1987-02-12
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.21
(rated by 42142 readers)

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 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.
 

Non-linear storytelling in surreal adventures.

Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar can be a good read for those who enjoy experimental literature and surreal adventures. The non-linear storytelling and unconventional structure add to the unique experience of the novel. The characters are complex and mysterious, drawing the reader into their world. The exploration of philosophical themes and the use of imagery are other notable features that make this book memorable. Overall, this book is a must-read for fans of postmodern literature.

  • National Book Award for Translation (1967)
  • Mikael Agricola -palkinto (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.