Hopscotch: The experimental classic that helped launch the Latin Boom - Couverture souple

Cortázar, Julio

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784875864 ISBN 13 : 9781784875862

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2020

Synopsis

Oliveira wants certainty. Living in Paris, he gets jazz, love and beautiful disorder.

Julio Cortázar’s masterpiece, the forerunner of the Latin Boom in the 1960s, is published in Vintage Classics for the first time.
Dazed by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris while jazz, literature, life and art echo around him. A chance encounter with a literary idol and his new work, a novel that can be read in random order, sends Horatio’s mind into further confusion.
As a return to Buenos Aires beckons, Horatio’s friend and fellow artist, Traveler, awaits his arrival with dread. Their lives are ready to play out in an inexhaustible game of indeterminacy.
Hopscotch is a landmark Latin American literary novel about art, exile, love, form and uncertainty. Experimental, restless and intellectually alive, it remains one of the great works of twentieth-century fiction.

'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many kinds of potential meanings and intimations' Times Literary Supplement

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julio Cortazar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of his life, and after that in Paris. His stories, written under the dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of nightmare. In later life Cortazar became a passionate advocate for human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships in Latin America. He died in 1984.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Dazed by the disappearance of his muse, Argentinian writer Horatio Oliveira wanders the bridges of Paris, the sounds of jazz and the talk of literature, life and art echoing around him. But a chance encounter with a literary idol and his new work – a novel that can be read in random order – sends Horatio’s mind into further confusion.

As a return to Buenos Aires beckons, Horatio’s friend and fellow artist, Traveler, awaits his arrival with dread –the lives of these two young writers now ready to play ou

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784875864
• ISBN 13: 9781784875862
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Vintage Classics; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/VCL/vintage-classics/; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie