Hopscotch (Panther) - Softcover

Julio Cortázar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860464289 ISBN 13: 9781860464287

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1998

Synopsis

The story of two young writers whose lives are playing themselves out in Buenos Aires and Paris to the sounds of jazz and brilliant talk, Hopscotch , written in 1963, was the first hypertext novel. Anticipating the age of the web with a non-structure that allows readers to take the chapters in any order they wish, Hopscotch invites them to be the architects of the novel themselves. Soon after publication, the classic work took on a cult status it has never lost, and is celebrated worldwide as one of the greatest landmarks of 20th–Century fiction.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

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.

From the Back Cover

"Cortazar's masterpiece...the first great novel of Spanish America."

-- Times Literary Supplement

"The most powerful encyclopedia of emotions and visions to emerge from the postwar generation of international writers." -- New Republic

"A work of the most exhilarating talent and interest." -- Elizabeth Hardwick

Edition details

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860464289
• ISBN 13: 9781860464287
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 577