false 53413 38 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, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures. 1794732 book 1963 Rayuela total:1592|5:823|4:478|3:203|2:62|1:26| 1592 6786 2742 200 5 8 false false Tue Nov 06 22:18:20 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 31 09:22:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 23:55:35 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 04:34:05 -0700 2008 ‘Hopscotch’ is a series of journeys through interconnected lives. It is simultaneously a reminder that we each read the same words and form different conclusions.

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A reader can volunteer to be launched after nearly every chapter of the relatively conventional narrative contained in chapters 1-56 (the first bo...more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 09:19:22 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 15:40:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 12 06:46:43 -0700 2007 Sat May 12 09:16:01 -0700 2007
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The book explores the author's psyche as an exile (in both national and spiritual dimensions) in Paris and his roots in South America. This al...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 02 18:42:15 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 08:13:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 00:31:40 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 00:35:17 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Wed Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Thu Apr 10 23:11:23 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 21:45:16 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jul 27 10:22:14 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 10:26:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 12:07:20 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 22:31:27 -0700 2009 Hopscotch after I had read Bolano's Savage Detectives, with the vague idea that they were going to be the same kind of mystically weird, and I read Savage Detectives only after I had taught Cortázar's "Blow-Up," and I really only taught "Blow-Up" because I had read anothe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 28 22:26:11 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 19 17:30:50 -0700 2009
I enjoyed this read even though I shouldn't have. The author is especially obtuse in hi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 29 14:38:19 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 14 08:32:50 -0800 2009 Hopscotch as if it's an entirely serious work of fiction does it a disservice. I found, in rereading this book, that I'd retained very little of the c...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 11:47:46 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 12:45:17 -0700 2007 more...]]>