![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The second part is called “From this side,” and it shows Oliveira returning to Buenos Aires and meeting up with his old friend Manolo Traveler and his wife Talita. Many long and intelligent discussions fill their day, as they spend time with a group of foreign artists living in Paris, who make up the Snake Club. The first part is called “From the other side” and it tells the story of Horacio Oliveira, an Argentine intellectual living in Paris, and his complicated relationship with La Maga (or The Magician) and her child. Rayuela is divided into three parts, which can be read in multiple ways: chapter by chapter, from beginning to end all the way until the conclusion of the second part, but ignoring the third or non-linearly, starting on chapter 73 and then hopping and skipping around, following the suggestions given by the author. "O ne of the greatest Spanish-language novels of all time" Although he wrote Rayuela in Paris and published it first in Spain in 1963 – making 2013 the book's 50 th anniversary – it is considered to be a landmark of South American literature. ![]() " Rayuela," or "hopscotch," is a popular children’s game in which participants hop on numbered rectangles, avoiding the space that holds a marker or stone which participants must grab on their way to the end, a half-circle often identified as “heaven.” It is also the title of one of the greatest Spanish-language novels of all time, written by famous Argentine author Julio Cortázar. ![]()
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