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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.
- Julio Cortázar
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Hopscotch. Julio Cortázar, Gregory Rabassa (translator) 4.21. 43,179 ratings3,480 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."
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Oct 13, 2022 · By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on October 13, 2022. Hopscotch is not only Julio Cortázar’s most celebrated literary achievement, it stands alongside Gabriel García Márquez ’s One Hundred Years of Solitude as one of the most important and influential novels of the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s. Referring to it as a single novel, however ...
Feb 12, 1987 · Paperback – February 12, 1987. by Julio Cortázar (Author) 4.5 352 ratings. See all formats and editions. "Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa.
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The first great novel of Spanish America” (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa.
- Paperback
‘Hopscotch’ is a demanding and technically refined work, written with a great care for language and without an apparent regular structure. It can be read in different ways, either progressively or ‘hopscotching’ through the 56 chapters and the following third section, according to the instructions given by the author who, in any case ...
Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and most of his best-known work was written in France, where he established himself in 1951.
