Rayuela Rayuela, is the great novel by Julio Cortazar . The book where the Argentine writer knew condense their own obsessions aesthetic, literary and vital in an almost endless mosaic where a whole day was beautifully reflected. The turbulent love Oliveira and La Maga, the friends of the Club of the Snake, walking around Paris in search of heaven and hell have their counterpart in the symmetric adventure Oliveira, Talita and Traveler in Buenos Aires tainted by the memory. The emergence of Hopscotch in 1963 was a breakthrough in the novel in English: first, a writer took until the final consequences will transgress the traditional order of history and language to tell it. The result is this unique book, open to multiple readings, full of humor, of risk and originality unparalleled
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can not talk about Rayuela argument without resorting to reductionism that inevitably distance us from the deeper meaning of the work, since what matters in this novel is not as intricate or novel plot, but the vast universe psychological development of each character and the relationship that, from this universe, down with love, death, jealousy and art.
First hand, there's side tells the story of Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine resident in Paris and its relationship with Maga, which is surrounded by a group of friends that form the Club of the Serpent, with that memorable strike up conversations and discussions give us the vision of Cortázar about the human condition, reflecting the status of the artist.
The second, From this side, Horace returns to Buenos Aires, where he lives with his former girlfriend, where he spent long hours with their friends Traveler and Talita, in the first sees himself before leaving in the second sees La Maga, unforgettable and always present. Finally
In other places, bringing together heterogeneous materials: supplements previous history, newspaper clippings, citations from books and self-critical texts attributed to Morelli, an old writer (may alter ego of Cortázar). These pages, although sometimes associated with the preceding chapters, often no more than vague stimuli Cortazar to help us in some way away from linearity and classical literature and dive into subtexts subtexts subtexts of .
In its substance and form, Rayuela vindicates the importance of the reader and even a way it pushes a role activity and denied by the classic novel on which it was carried by the linearity of a story in which the most important thing "I would happen at the end. "Rayuela the argument in care or care only as is the scene where the characters live and operate in a free and profound vitality that the author gives them and he himself says not to be responsible .
Many critics refer to as a antinovel Rayuela, by the innovative, because it breaks all the canons preset at the time of its issue. However, it can not be said by the author. Cortázar says in an interview that the term "antinovel" seems an "attempt a little poison to destroy the novel as a genre" and therefore prefers the term contranovela. July seeks to this work "to see otherwise contact between the novel and the reader," prompting it to change its passive attitude towards the work, to take an active and critical.
the book is very strange from the very beginning in which the author proposes 2 ways to read it, the traditional beginning of chapter 1 until 56, where the book can be read fluently, and 2nd , starting with chapter 73 and following the order proposed by Cortazar display panel.
I read in the traditional manner, anticipating that otherwise I would reserve for later, when me want to reread it, and that's what fascinated me the idea to re-read a book not be the same. It's exciting moments as you feel that Oliveira is the voice of their conscience that arises, ceases to raise and re-emerges on these things, it seems simple, that is the daily life, post-modernity, believing which is part of everything, anything and both at the same time.
A mixture of philosophy, art and comments from people from different social class. From my point of view, touches on themes like love, unconditional friendship and values, art, exile and return home, in a brilliant, exceptional, extraordinary, mixed with incredible poetry.
is a work that must be present in the library of any good player
amazing strength is a scary monster, but to be pitied. has already become legend, the idea of \u200b\u200bthis book was a rainy night of June 16, 1816. They met around a campfire, talking and drinking wine, Percy Bysshe Shelley (husband of Mary Shelley), Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont (the wife of poet) and John W. Polidori, physician and writer. Apparently, at some point in the meeting, each of those present made a commitment to write a horror story. True to the agreement, each started their own. However, the only ones who finished it were Mary Shelley and Polidori, who published the short story The Vampyre. is also said that night, Mary Shelley had a nightmare in which a student obsessed with creating artificial life awakens and looks horrified his hideous monster. From this horrible sight, the author undertook the construction the promised tale of terror. For some, Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is the first work of science fiction, for others it is one of the great Gothic novels. Are also those who see it as an account of philosophical richness, depth charges arise regarding the nature of man, the border between life and death, and the possibilities of knowledge. Beyond the prospect of trial, they all share that this is a masterpiece, a classic that can not stop reading. Frankenstein 
