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...This unspoken tension lies at the heart of Argentinean author Julio Cort??zar’s novel “Hopscotch,” one of the most beautiful, complex portraits we have of the idealism and subsequent disillusionment of that decade. Cort??zar—a literary heavyweight in Latin America, associated with the prolific Boom period of the 60s and 70s—wrote “Hopscotch” in 1963, after his move to France to escape dictator Juan Domingo Perón, and its Left Bank influences are clear. In stunningly tactile prose...
...sketching out the shapes of his insomnia,” a passing moment as “putting down an empty glass on the table,” light as a “dove in the hands of a madman.” (For the sleek rendering of Cort??zar’s surrealistic, reference-laden brand of introspection, the English reader is indebted to translator Gregory Rabassa...
...It’s a curious bit of authorial self-sabotage though, for as he witnessed the paralyzing effects of theory over action, Cort??zar grew deeply suspicious of such a passive appreciation of words. In one of his early short stories, a character in a detective novel murders his reader as he sits quietly in a green velvet armchair flipping the pages. In “Hopscotch,” the pleasures of a linear plot are mocked in a substantial third section subtitled “Expendable Chapters,” the literary equivalent...
...Fantastic Library.” You could immediately recognize these “FL” books because they all had pink covers. But you know who some of the writers were in that Fantastic Library? Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Stanislaw Lem, Julio Cort??zar and others. Some of the most diverse, hard to categorize writers around. But for convenience’s sake, they were all given pink covers. Booksellers in Germany told me that people came into their stores and literally turned away when they saw those pink books because they...
...vibrant ballerina who became an early international standout in George Balanchine's famously starless New York City Ballet; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Such was her status in a company known for downplaying individual performers that after she announced her retirement in 1973, Balanchine created a work in her honor, Cort??ge Hongrois, which remains in the company's repertoire. Blunt, generous and emotional, Hayden, who taught until her death, dazzled in diverse ballets like the bouncy, light-hearted Stars and Stripes, with music by John Philip Sousa, and Illuminations, an allegorical meditation on the life of Arthur Rimbaud...