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Can I read Hopscotch [trans.Rabassa] on EtoBox?
Hopscotch [trans.Rabassa] by Cortazar, Julio is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hopscotch [trans.Rabassa] about?
'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 RabassaHoracio 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.
Who reads Hopscotch [trans.Rabassa]?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Cortazar, Julio
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394752846
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 4.25 / 5 (10,523 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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