Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
The story of two young writers whose lives are playing themselves out in Buenos Aires and Paris to the sounds of jazz and brilliant talk, Hopscotch, written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel. Anticipating the age of the web with a non-structure that allows readers to take the chapters in any order they wish, Hopscotch invites them to be the architects of the novel themselves. Soon after publication, the classic work took on a cult status it has never lost, and is celebrated worldwide as one of the greatest landmarks of 20th-Century fiction.
Cortazar's masterpieceThis is the first great novel of Spanish America Times Literary Supplement Hopscotch... marks the true possibility of encounter between the Latin-American imagination and the contemporary world -- Carlos Fuentes Here is literary cunning and accomplishment of a high order -- Robert Nye Guardian The dialogue is brilliant, whether the subject is literature, love, Mondrian, jazz or the fallibility of science -- Donald Keene New York Times Mr Cortazar has marked off a corner of the world singularly his own -- Thomas Lask New York Times
Julio Cortazar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of his life, and after that in Paris. His stories, written under the dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of nightmare. In later life Cortazar became a passionate advocate for human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships in Latin America. He died in 1984.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860464287 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860464289 |
| Title | Hopscotch |
| Author | Julio Cortazar |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1998-06-26 |
| Number of pages | 554 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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