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JULIO CORTÁZAR
Julio Cortázar lived in Buenos Aires for the first thirty years of his life, and, after that, in Paris. His stories, written under the dual influence of the English masters of the uncanny and of French surrealism, are extraordinary inventions, just this side of nightmare. In later life, Cortázar became a passionate advocate for human rights and a persistent critic of the military dictatorships in Latin America. He died in 1984.
GREGORY RABASSA
Gregory Rabassa translated many classic works of modern Spanish and Portuguese literature, including One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. His translation of Hopscotch received the National Book Award for Translation.
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Cronopios and Famas
Diary of Andrés Fava
Divertimento
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires
Final Exam
From the Observatory
Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
Nicaraguan Sketches
Save Twilight
62: A Model Kit
Someone Walking Around
The Winners
Unreasonable Hours
We Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales
JULIO CORTÁZAR HOPSCOTCH
TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY Gregory Rabassa
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First published with the title Rayuela by Editorial Sudamericana Sociedad Anónima in 1963
First published in Great Britain by The Harvill Press in 1967
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