Hopscotch: A Novel

567 Pages·2014·2.53 MB·English

by  Julio Cortazar

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.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Instructions
From the Other Side
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
From this Side
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
From Diverse Sides
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155

About the Author
Other Books by This Author
TABLE OF INSTRUCTIONS
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: 73 -
1 - 2 - 116 - 3 - 84 - 4 - 71 - 5 - 81 - 74 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 93 - 68 - 9 - 104 - 10 -
65 - 11 - 136 - 12 - 106 - 13 - 115 - 14 - 114 - 117 - 15 - 120 - 16 - 137 -
17 - 97 - 18 - 153 - 19 - 90 - 20 - 126 - 21 - 79 - 22 - 62 - 23 - 124 - 128 -
24 - 134 - 25 - 141 - 60 - 26 - 109 - 27 - 28 - 130 - 151 - 152 - 143 - 100
- 76 - 101 - 144 - 92 - 103 - 108 - 64 - 155 - 123 - 145 - 122 - 112 - 154 -
85 - 150 - 95 - 146 - 29 - 107 - 113 - 30 - 57 - 70 - 147 - 31 - 32 - 132 -
61 - 33 - 67 - 83 - 142 - 34 - 87 - 105 - 96 - 94 - 91 - 82 - 99 - 35 - 121 -
36 - 37 - 98 - 38 - 39 - 86 - 78 - 40 - 59 - 41 - 148 - 42 - 75 - 43 - 125 -
44 - 102 - 45 - 80 - 46 - 47 - 110 - 48 - 111 - 49 - 118 - 50 - 119 - 51 - 69
- 52 - 89 - 53 - 66 - 149 - 54 - 129 - 139 - 133 - 140 - 138 - 127 - 56 -
135 - 63 - 88 - 72 - 77 - 131 - 58 - 131 -
And moved by the hope of being of particular help to youth, and of
contributing to the reform of manners in general, I have put together
this collection of maxims, counsels, and precepts which are the basis of
those universal morals that are so much a part of the spiritual and
temporal happiness of men of all ages, states, and conditions, and of the
prosperity and orderliness not only of the civil and Christian republic in
which we live, but of any other republic or government that the most
thoughtful and serious philosophers of the world might wish to contrive.
Spirit of the Bible and Universal Morals,
Drawn from the Old and New Testaments
Put down in Tuscan by the Abbot Martini with footnotes
Rendered into Castilian by a member of the Regular Clergy of the
Congregation of San Cayetano of this Court With permission
Madrid: Aznar, 1797