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Interesting novel, the original hypertext. Can be read two ways (and I'm guessing more) according to the front cover. My issue is not with the content of the book but the book itself. I've read the book the linear way - Chapters 1-57, and my book has started spitting out pages in the 250 range. Literally, 3-5 pages have fallen out of the book while reading. I bought the book brand new, this is my first time reading it, so I am frustrated.

I have to read the book the second, hopscotch way, and am not looking forward to it with the falling pages.


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Hopscotch A Novel Pantheon Modern Writers Series Julio Cortazar Gregory Rabassa Books Reviews

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Quick and Dirty Review this book is impressive. It is a must read if you're a fan of the intellectual novel. I found myself having to "translate" it as I went, chapter by chapter, in order to keep up with all the literary, philosophical and historical references. This is not at all a plot-driven book, in fact it seems to be completely unencumbered by any kind of standard novel format. It can be read front to back, back to front, or in the "prescribed" order. Several of the chapters could be extracted completely from the book and stand alone quite nicely. Yet, it is a novel, with a crew of characters and settings you would love to be a part of. Latin American beatniks in 50's Paris? Perfect.

I need to find my copy so I can go ahead and start rereading it, slowly, chapter by chapter.
From the creative mind of Julio Cortazar, a disturbing book of an Argentine political exile living in Paris. His return to Buenos Aires is just as harrowing. Actually, two books in one as Hopscotch suggests.
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HOPSCOTCH by Julio Cortazar is more of a maze exploration than simply a good read, yet I became entranced with the prose.

Initially I was attracted to the non-linear format of HOPSCOTCH. Cortazar wants us jumping in and out of the plot line in the main "novel" with seemingly off-the-wall interruptions, but they turn out to be connected after all by the "end." And then some of the juxtapositions are less sublime but equally effective, such as in chapter 14 when Oliveira is looking at Wong's series of pictures depicting an execution in China. As gruesome as the descriptions are, skipping next to chapter 114, I couldn't help but to internalize the absurdity of the "civilized" treatment in the San Quentin prison gas chamber.

Anyway, HOPSCOTCH has in fact been a wonderful read but I think this is the kind of book that readers have to give at least fifty pages (even if that happens to be page 210) before the story grabs hold.
In the narrative of Cortázar’s Hopscotch, he analyzes the game of hopscotch after the main character, Oliveira, engages with a clocharde named Emmanuéle on the streets of Paris “One day you learn how to leave Earth and make the pebble climb into Heaven…the worst part of it is that precisely at that moment…no one has learned how to make the pebble climb up into Heaven.”

Cortázar continues this idea about failing to reach Heaven in the game “Childhood is all over…you’re into novels, into the anguish of the senseless divine trajectory, into the speculation about another Heaven that you have to reach too…And since you have come out of childhood…you forget that in order to get to Heaven you have to have a pebble and a toe.”

The concept of hopscotch is practical, but Julio Cortázar’s book, Hopscotch, is anything but practical—it is profound. Some of the characters in the story understand the idea to play, most do not. Hopscotch is a set of two books, as told by Julio Cortázar in his Table of Instructions in the beginning of the book. Theses books are a tendril of timelines for Oliveira, because Heaven, according to the game and his actions and desires, becomes elusive to him. La Maga, the other main character, is Oliveira’s lover in Paris She is an ever-present and formidable force to Oliveira, but this is not enough to for him to stay with her. Once more, the concept of the game of hopscotch is chalked on a Bohemian playground with La Maga, Oliveira, and a group of friends pushing, and some not pushing, the pebble. Eventually, Oliveira moves on to Buenos Aires, his homeland.

In Buenos Aires, the playground (in due course) becomes a battlefield for Oliveira. Julio Cortázar’s meticulous sequence of events is portrayed with a party of three Oliveira, Traveler and his wife, Talita. Arriving in Buenos Aires, Oliveira meets his old friend Traveler, who had been informed by Oliveira’s girlfriend Gekrepten that he was arriving. There is some resentment from Traveler with having Oliveira around at times; some of this is because Oliveira looks at Talita as if she is La Maga. In the course of the narrative, Traveler gets Oliveira a job in the circus, and then they decide to buy a mental hospital. Over time, the strain of his past terrain of failings and misfortunes manifest into a battle—a battle that Oliveira will not win.

A notable mention about Hopscotch is Chapter 34 The poetic and artistic method that Cortázar employs in this chapter is ingenious. Oliveira relays two different articles of prose, line by line with a clear separation of thought.

Hopscotch is a literary examination by Julio Cortázar that vanquishes the norm of novels. Thus, Cortázar’s poetic prowess to tell a story about a man, his desires and disappointments, and a childhood game of hopscotch is extraordinary.

Julio Cortázar was a novelist, poet, musician, and a short story writer. (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984)
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This is forever one of my favorite books even though I have yet to finish all avenues it provides. The seller I purchased from was outstanding and got the book to me a week early along with a sweet handwritten note! Strong recommendations to anyone looking for a novel adventure.
Interesting novel, the original hypertext. Can be read two ways (and I'm guessing more) according to the front cover. My issue is not with the content of the book but the book itself. I've read the book the linear way - Chapters 1-57, and my book has started spitting out pages in the 250 range. Literally, 3-5 pages have fallen out of the book while reading. I bought the book brand new, this is my first time reading it, so I am frustrated.

I have to read the book the second, hopscotch way, and am not looking forward to it with the falling pages.