Hopscotch A Novel 1st Pantheon Pbk Ed Julio Cortazar Gregory Rabassa Translation by Julio Cortazar, Gregory Rabassa (translation) instant download after payment.

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 & La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures & intellectual acrobatics, & 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, & an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.

The book is highly influenced by Henry Miller’s reckless & relentless search for truth in post-decadent Paris & Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki’s modal teachings on Zen Buddhism.

Cortázar's employment of interior monologue, punning, slang, & his use of different languages is reminiscent of Modernist writers like Joyce, although his main influences were Surrealism & the French New Novel, as well as the "riffing" aesthetic of jazz & New Wave Cinema.

Hopscotch is a stream-of-consciousness novel which can be read according to two different sequences of chapters. This novel is often referred to as a counter-novel, as it was by Cortázar himself. It meant an exploration with multiple endings, a neverending search through unanswerable questions. Written in Paris, it was published in Spanish in 1963 & in English in 1966.

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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 Cortázar was so pleased with Rabassa's translation of Hopscotch that he recommended the translator to Gabriel García Márquez when García Márquez was looking for someone to translate his novel 100 Years of Solitude into English. "Rabassa's 100 Years of Solitude improved the original," said García M