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Lucille Kerr (essay date 1992)

SOURCE: "In the Name of the Author: Reading Around Julio Cortázar's Rayuela," in Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions from Spanish America, Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 26-45.

[In the following excerpt, Kerr explores the problem of authorship in Hopscotch, focusing on the relationship between Cortázar and the fictional author Morelli.]

By virtue of the dramatic and apparently revolutionary turn it gives to Spanish American fiction, Julio Cortázar's Rayuela [Hopscotch] (1963) represents a critical moment in the development of contemporary Spanish American literature. Though one might now question whether this text is in fact as subversive as it seemed to earlier readers, it would be difficult to dispute Rayuela's place within the modern Spanish American canon, or to challenge Cortázar status within Spanish American literary culture. I have chosen to begin with this...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Donald Keene (review date 10 April 1966)
   2. Carlos Fuentes (essay date March 1967)
   3. The Times Literary Supplement (review date 9 March 1967)
   4. Julio Ortega (essay date 1969)
   5. Julio Cortázar with Evelyn Picon Garfield (interview date 10-13 July 1973)
   6. Alfred J. Mac Adam (essay date 1977)
   7. Jaime Alazraki (essay date 1978)
   8. Julio Ortega (essay date Fall 1983)
   9. Scott Simpkins (essay date 1990)
   10. Lucille Kerr (essay date 1992)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

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