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Should I continue reading if I don't understand a thing in this book?

Javier Bonafont Its likely that nobody understands very much of this book the first go-round, so you would be in good company. People seem to reread this novel over a…moreIts likely that nobody understands very much of this book the first go-round, so you would be in good company. People seem to reread this novel over and over again. I think of this book as a cubist Picasso painting, its from a lot of perspectives at once, so the first read is just figuring out what you are looking at, and I honestly dont exactly know myself. I had to keep going back and rereading paragraphs after I figured out whose point of view it was. It *does* start to gel and get easier by a third of the way through, and its by turns melodramatic, hilarious, morbid and creepy, and always it feels like you are on a mild LSD trip. Cortazar's experiment seems to be about how moments, emotions, thoughts are continuous between the people experiencing them. Sort of like if you took Rashomon and re-editted it so all the POV's were happening at once and you were crossfading between them all the time. So its never one person's story (We're all connected, Man!). But I dont know much. I'm looking forward to reading it again to make more headway. Its also possible that all the characters are just pawns of a couple of vampires. Or not, and there are no real vampires, just delusions. Thats part of the amazingness of the novel, that you can probably talk about it for the rest of your life.(less)

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¿Es necesario haber leído obras anteriores para comprender?

Claudia Montenegro Yo sugeriría comenzar a leer primero cuentos de Cortázar. Si te atrapan, seguir con Rayuela (leerla primero en orden normal, y luego en el orden salta…moreYo sugeriría comenzar a leer primero cuentos de Cortázar. Si te atrapan, seguir con Rayuela (leerla primero en orden normal, y luego en el orden saltado que propone el autor). Si te encantó y pasa a estar entre tus libros favoritos, entonces leer 62 será un goce absoluto.(less)

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