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HOPSCOTCH by Julio Cortazar. 564 pages. Pantheon...
Another Ship of Fools, now translated into English, set sail two years before Katherine Anne Porter's symbolically freighted liner made its voyage. Argentine Novelist Julio Cortazar's passengers are lottery winners whose prizes are paid vacations on a cruise ship. But they are hustled on to a strange freighter, destination unknown. Aboard ship, the strangeness continues. An officer announces that for the present the stern of the vessel must be barred to passengers for technical reasons. What reasons? The officer explains to them that two of the ship's company are ill with a rare form...