Hopscotch

Many writers of the twentieth century tried to make literature resemble many other things… Thus Julio Cortázar turned his novel into a children’s game Hopscotch so that a reader would be obliged to leap from chapter to chapter like a flea. Writers go in a voluntary exile not to see exotic places – th......more

Julio Cortazar - Hopscotch Don't read this book. For real now, don't. Throw it away or, better still, burn it. Either you will burn it or it will burn you. Seriously, it will tear you open and feast on your guts while all you'll be able to do is look around in over-saturated numbness. I envy those wh......more

8 years after i read this book, i finally understand why i didn't like it. apparently, this is an "either/or book", but i read it as an "and then" book. dr. wikipedia claims: An author's note suggests that the book would best be read in one of two possible ways, either progressively from chapters 1 to......more