by Julio Cortázar · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466331906
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«Rayuela» is the novel by Julio Cortázar, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (736 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine living in Paris with a group of bohemian friends and his lover, La Maga. When she disappears, Oliveira returns to Buenos Aires, where new experiences lead him to question his existence. Its structure allows for multiple reading paths, making the novel an exploration as playful as it is profound of love, chance, and the search for meaning.
It belongs to the Contemporánea collection. The English translation received the National Book Award in 1967.
For readers interested in a classic of Hispanic American narrative and in formal proposals that break with the traditional novel.
Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
