Hopscotch (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Julio Cortázar
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: 1950’s
- Setting: Paris and Buenos Aires
- Principal Characters: Horacio Oliveira, La Maga, Morelli
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: 1950’s, Philosophy or philosophers, Paris, Death or dying, South America or South Americans, Clubs, social
- Locales: Paris, France, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Story:
The novel begins with a “Table of Instructions” for reading Hopscotch, which consists of two main books. The reader is given a choice between reading chapters 1 through 56 (the first two sections) and a more unconventional reading beginning with chapter 73 and proceeding in hopscotch fashion through all 153 chapters.
From the Other Side. Horacio Oliveira was an unemployed Argentine intellectual in his forties, living first in Paris and then, around 1950, in Buenos Aires. He searched day and night for some unknown element that he sensed was...
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Julio Cortázar (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Julio Cortázar (Short Fiction)Julio Cortázar (Long Fiction)
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