Julio Cortázar is an Argentine writer and artist with a distinctly intellectual sensibility; his source material is individual consciousness. The main theme is the spiritual crisis of bourgeois society, and his cherished dream is the liberation of the human being.
In the novel “Hopscotch,” there is a lot of strange, mysterious, and unsaid. The lottery win made happy owners of cruise tickets completely different people. Without this circumstance, it’s unlikely they would ever have met in ordinary life. And a few days of travel dramatically change the fate of many of them…