Hopscotch –  Julio Cortázar

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Hopscotch – Julio Cortázar

Hopscotch –  Julio Cortázar

“Cortazar’s masterpiece … The first great novel of Spanish America” (The Times Literary Supplement)

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.”

Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira’s astonishing adventures.

Hopscotch – Julio Cortázar

“Cortazar’s masterpiece … The first great novel of Spanish America” (The Times Literary Supplement)

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.