I once met a man who claimed he always read the last paragraph of any novel before he turned to page one. “I want to make sure it has a good ending,” he explained. “Otherwise why invest the effort?”
But novelist Julio Cortázar has an even bolder suggestion for readers of his experimental novel Hopscotch, published 50 years ago this June. He invites them …
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