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Hopscotch (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780394752846)
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Julio Cort痙ar
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x"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) - Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa
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.
Author: Julio Cort痙ar
ISBN-10: 0394752848
ISBN-13: 9780394752846
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 02/12/1987
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.23w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/15/2013 pg. 14
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.
Author: Julio Cort痙ar
ISBN-10: 0394752848
ISBN-13: 9780394752846
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Language: English
Published: 02/12/1987
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.23w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/15/2013 pg. 14
By Julio Cort痙ar
xJULIO CORTﾁZAR 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 as well as the author of several novels and volumes of short stories. Ten of his books have been published in English: The Winners, Hopscotch (which won the National Book Award), Blow-Up and Other Stories, Cronopios and Famas, 62: A Model Kit, A Change of Light, We Love Glenda So Much, and A Certain Lucas. He received the Prix M馘icis Award (France, 1974) and the Rub駭 Dar? Order of Cultural Independence (Nicaragua, 1983), among other accolades. Considered one of the great modern Latin American authors, he died in Paris in February 1984.
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