FL 380: An Archaeology of the "Boom":
Modern Latin American Prose Fiction
Reading Guide to Cortázar #3
Hopscotch
- 219 The doppelgänger: Traveler
- 220 The black brick
- 222 Talita: Her understanding of self, others, and the human condition.
- 225 "You don't have to talk if you don't want to"
- 226 Horacio's quest: "He had to keep going, either start over..."
- 228 Coming back v. going away: return v. exile
- 230 "How they loved to play with words..."
- 231 Living absurdly???: "Don Crespo thought they were crazy..."
- 231 "There were nights when everybody..."
- 234 A narrator that empathizes...
- 239 A bridge: "That's not a bad idea at all..."
- 247 "Those two have got another bridge..."
- 248 "You come up right to the edge..."
- 253 Doppelgänger: "You're probably aware that all this trouble..."
a. "There's no reason to hide..."
- 256 "Did all that happen? (. . .) They're two different matters."
- 257 "We're so bland it's unbearable, Manú."
- 262 "...Talita thought that it was also good to collect..."
- 265 "Now that I think of it, when you're present..."
a. A trance, a message, a contact?
- 271 "Yes, you're just like him..."
- 271 "It isn't because of Horacio, love, it isn't only because..."
a. "those unexpected evidences of something..."
b. "It's something fucking else, God damn it!"
- 272 "And if he were here..."
- 275 "But it's as if something is talking..."
- 278 "All in all (. . .) it occurs to me sometimes that you..."
- 281 "Explanation is a well dressed mistake."
- 283 "I am I, I am he. We are, but I am I..."
- 290 "The worst of it was..."
a. "To know that he was in love with La Maga..."
- 291 "It could have been easy to organize a coherent scheme..."
- 302 "...that this was all a comedy of idiots..."
- 304 "As if we were vampires, as if a single..."
- 306 "One of these nights I'm going to tell you about over there..."
- 314 "Oliveira knew that everything was coming back into order..."
- 316 "Talita wasn't surprised by anything..."
- 317 "So I look like that other woman"
a. "I'm nobody's zombie"
- 319 "The (and Talita was there, fifteen feet...."
a. The prodigal son (of a bitch)...
- 320 "The past had become turned around . . . pity on him..."
- 321 "a madness so absolute that Manú, and everything that..."
- 325 "He thinks she's dead, Manú, and at the same time..."
a. "a contagion that came from farther off..."
b. "So the poor devil is afraid..."
- 326 "He's so happy to be afraid tonight..."
- 335 Two possible forms of the encounter between Horacio and Traveler;
between the monkey and the territory.
- 340 "I'm alive..."
a. "And you don't want to pay anything".
b. "an existential puritan"
c. "Do you think I'm not surprised..."
- 344-5 "We'd all like to have the millenary kingdom..."
a. "there wouldn't be any more of this game of substitutions..."
b. "you're in harmony with the territory..."
- 346 "They call that being crazy."
a. "Oliveira closed his eyes and thought that..."
- "That's the way it was, harmony lasted..."
- 349 The end??