![]() ![]() ![]() To make matters more interesting, he asks readers to skip chapter 55 completely (I will admit I cheated and read it anyway), and to read one of the chapters twice.ĭoes that sound confusing? Well, Cortázar has some pity on those narrow-minded souls still caught up in the antiquated linear reading paradigm. He invites them to start the novel at chapter 73 and then proceed through the novel’s 155 sections in a prescribed order - Cortázar gives a list of the alternative sequence in his “Table of Instructions” - leaping back and forth in the book, until they finally finish, having already read 132 through 155, with chapter 131. ![]() Julio Cortázar has left even bolder suggestions for readers of his experimental novel Hopscotch, published 50 years ago today, June 28. “I want to make sure it has a good ending,” he explained. I ONCE MET A MAN who claimed he always read the last paragraph of any novel before he turned to page one. ![]()
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