Julio Cortázar. The first of the “golden trio” of Latin American prose of the mid-20th century—Cortázar—Borges—Márquez. A writer who balances on the edge of reality and the fantastic, of magical realism and surrealism; an unrivaled master of Spanish-language literature who doesn’t fit into narrow boxes of definitions and genres.
“Hopscotch.” A book that literary critics have traditionally compared to Hermann Hesse’s «Glass Bead Game» and to James Joyce’s «Ulysses».
A book considered a kind of benchmark of magical realism.
“Hopscotch.” A text within a text. A novel in which mystical revelations are subject to strict classification, while ordinary events take on deep, multi-layered meaning.
A book without which there would not be only not only Faulz and Coelho, but even “late” Márquez!