Read Hopscotch: A Novel (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) Online
Authors: Julio Cortazar
Hopscotch: A Novel (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
Copyright © 1966 by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published in Spanish as
Rayuela,
by Editorial Sudamericana Sociedad Anónima. Copyright © 1963, by Editorial Sudamericana Sociedad Anónima. © 1967 Julio Cortazar
This translation first published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., and in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., in 1966.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Cortázar, Julio.
Hopscotch.
(Pantheon modern writers series)
Translation of: Rayuela.
I. Title II. Series.
PQ7797.C7145R313 1987 863 86-25347
ISBN
0-394-75284-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-101-87014-3
The selection from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “A Coney Island of the Mind,” is reprinted with the permission of the publisher, New Directions. Copyright © 1958 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
v3.1
In its own way, this book consists of many books, but two books above all.
The first can be read in a normal fashion and it ends with Chapter 56, at the close of which there are three garish little stars which stand for the words
The End.
Consequently, the reader may ignore what follows with a clean conscience.
The second should be read by beginning with Chapter 73 and then following the sequence indicated at the end of each chapter. In case of confusion or forgetfulness, one need only consult the following list:
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84
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68
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104
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136
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106
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120
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137
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97
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153
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90
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126
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79
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62
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60
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109
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