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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. The book is highly influenced by Henry Millers reckless and relentless search for truth in post-decadent Paris and Daisetz Teitaro Suzukis modal teachings on Zen Buddhism. Cortzar's employment of interior monologue, punning, slang, and his use of different languages is reminiscent of Modernist writers like Joyce, although his main influences were Surrealism and the French New Novel, as well as the "riffing" aesthetic of jazz and New Wave Cinema. In 1966, Gregory Rabassa won the first National Book Award to recognize the work of a translator, for his English-language edition of Hopscotch . Julio Cortzar was so pleased with Rabassa's translati

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Author

Julio Cortázar

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

2026-03-14