Hopscotch

A Novel

A Novel

By Julio Cortazar

By Julio Cortazar

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    About Hopscotch

    Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967

    Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A child’s death and La Maga’s disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira’s astonishing adventures.

    About Hopscotch

    Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967

    Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A child’s death and La Maga’s disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira’s astonishing adventures.

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    National Book Awards WINNER 1967

    Praise

    “The most magnificent novel I have ever read, and one to which I shall return again and again.”
    —C.D.B. Bryan, The New York Times Book Review

    “Cortazar’s masterpiece . . . The first great novel of Spanish America.”
    —The Times Literary Supplement

    “The most powerful encyclopedia of emotions and visions to emerge from the postwar generation of international writers.”
    —The New Republic

    “A work of the most exhilarating talent and interest.”
    —Elizabeth Hardwick

    About Julio Cortazar

    JULIO CORTÁZAR was born in Brussels to Argentinian parents in 1914, was raised in Argentina, and in 1952 moved to Paris, where he continued to live for the rest of his life. He was a poet, translator, an amateur jazz musician… More about Julio Cortazar

    About Julio Cortazar

    JULIO CORTÁZAR was born in Brussels to Argentinian parents in 1914, was raised in Argentina, and in 1952 moved to Paris, where he continued to live for the rest of his life. He was a poet, translator, an amateur jazz musician… More about Julio Cortazar

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Pantheon
    Feb 12, 1987 | 576 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780394752846

    Ebook
    Published by Pantheon
    Aug 05, 2014 | 576 Pages | ISBN 9781101870143

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