Hopscotch | Techniques
Cortazar's fundamental mistrust of language expresses itself in various forms: in the spontaneous creation of melodramatic dialogues, in the humorous seesaw questions between La Maga and Horacio, and in the recital of nonsense poems. In an effort to surpass traditional linguistic expression, Oliveira and La Maga create their own subjective language called gliglico. Moreover, there is a continual playing with words throughout Hopscotch. For example, Cortazar arbitrarily adds "h" to the beginning of certain words. Since, in Spanish, "h" has no phonetic value the random...
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