6/6/2023 0 Comments Rayuela by julio cortázar![]() ![]() (.) Hopscotch is in fact a comic novel, sometimes howlingly funny, always acutely ironic." - Donald Keene, The New York Times Book Review The dialogue is brilliant, whether the subject is literature, love, Mondrian, jazz or the fallibility of science. ![]() "The story, despite the deliberately episodic, snapshot manner, achieves dramatic intensity.(.) In short, Hopscotch, in its depth of imagination and suggestion, in its maze of black mirrors, in its ironical potentiality-through-destruction of time and words, marks the true possibility of encounter between the Latin-American imagination and the contemporary world." - Carlos Fuentes, Commentary History as change does not exist there is only the compulsive repetition of ritual acts. But in Latin America, fantasy is history. "Everything in Hopscotch is a ghostly double of itself: cities, characters, cultures, even the author himself.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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