Name: Hopscotch
Rating: 4.036585365853658 (41 reviews)

Julio Cortázar

When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires

Hopscotch

Rayuela es la novela de Julio Cortázar. El libro donde el escritor argentino supo condensar sus propias obsesiones estéticas, literarias y vitales en un mosaico casi inagotable donde toda una época se vio maravillosamente reflejada. El amor turbulento de Oliveira y La Maga, los amigos del Club de la Serpiente, las caminatas por París en busca del cielo y el infierno tienen su reverso en la aventura simétrica de Oliveira, Talita y Traveler en un Buenos Aires teñido por el recuerdo.

Rayuela

Sofia Collodel

To me it seemed pretty obvious that he was basing his book in sexus by Henry Miller: ohhhh I am a big important knowledgeable man, I am racist, misognistic, snobbish and I like it blablabla.
 It is clear that he is laughing at Argentinian writers that act in the way that his character does, but he does so in a way in which only those people will know that he is laughing at them. Basically , he knows that nobody will understand what he is getting at. So he treats this snob writers as idiots, but at the same time he treats the readers as idiots. I do not like this type of literature, in which the reader is expected to know a lot and read a lot before being able to understand the book. I think literature needs to be accessible, and it is not necessary to create a comboluted story to say something interesting. The name throwing and the references to other works is endless and boring. The misoginy at times is too much for me, and parts of the story make absolutely no sense. I get that the nonsense and the snobbery is forced , but I really don't appreciate it. To sum it up: diuj, meh, blah 

Julio Cortázar

Jennifer

Note: I've read this in order until chapter 56. Hopefully more things will stick with me when I revisit this book reading the chapters with the hopscotch approach.

(3.5 stars out of 5)

Sanja Grbic

NICOLAS ALEJANDRO BORENSZTEIN

When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires.

Arman Keyvanskhou

"El amor turbulento de Oliveira y La Maga, los amigos del Club de la Serpiente, las caminatas por París en busca del cielo y el infierno tienen su reverso en la aventura simétrica de Oliveira, Talita y Traveler en un Buenos Aires teñido por el recuerdo"--P. [4] of cover.

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