The dialogue is brilliant, whether the subject is literature, love, Mondrian, jazz or the fallibility of science. "The story, despite the deliberately episodic, snapshot manner, achieves dramatic intensity.(.) In short, Hopscotch, in its depth of imagination and suggestion, in its maze of black mirrors, in its ironical potentiality-through-destruction of time and words, marks the true possibility of encounter between the Latin-American imagination and the contemporary world." - Carlos Fuentes, Commentary History as change does not exist there is only the compulsive repetition of ritual acts.
But in Latin America, fantasy is history. "Everything in Hopscotch is a ghostly double of itself: cities, characters, cultures, even the author himself.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Stick to Borges.Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Critics who write about it tend to focus heavily on the two ways of reading, going into some detail about this, but do not seem to come up with any valid reason for choosing either way, except to point out that it is symbolic of our complex life. But, when it comes down to it, it is not a very enjoyable novel. And yes, it is meant to show that life, like this novel, is a bit of a mystery and we are all trapped in a labyrinth which this novel, with its unconventional page numbering, is. Yes, it is all very bohemian and there is a fair amount of humour and lots of learned discussion about learned subjects, particularly jazz. The hero, Horacio Oliveira, seems to spend his time wandering around Paris (and also Buenos Aires), smoking drinking, partying, jazz, girlfriend problems (she disappears). Maybe I should have tried the first way because, frankly, I did not get any pleasure out this book.
The second way is to start at chapter 73 and then jump to the chapter indicated at the end of each chapter, which is rarely the next one in conventional alphabetical order. The first is the conventional way – start at the beginning and go through to the end, or at least to the end of Chapter 56. Home » Argentina » Julio Cortázar » Rayuela (Hopscotch) Julio Cortázar: Rayuela (Hopscotch)įirst of all, you can, according to Cortázar, read this novel in two ways.
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