Hopscotch

Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America

Times Literary Supplement

Hopscotch... marks the true possibility of encounter between the Latin–American imagination and the contemporary world

Carlos Fuentes

Here is literary cunning and accomplishment of a high order

Robert Nye, Guardian

The dialogue is brilliant, whether the subject is literature, love, Mondrian, jazz or the fallibility of science

Donald Keene, New York Times

Mr Cortazar has marked off a corner of the world singularly his own

Thomas Lask, New York Times

Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed

Pablo Neruda

Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America

Times Literary Supplement

He was, perhaps without trying, the Argentine who made the whole world love him

Gabriel García Márquez

Here is literary cunning and accomplishment of a high order

Robert Nye, Guardian

I'm permanently indebted to the work of Cortázar

Roberto Bolaño

Marks the true possibility of encounter between the Latin–American imagination and the contemporary world

Carlos Fuentes

Mr Cortazar has marked off a corner of the world singularly his own

Thomas Lask, New York Times

One of the great existentialist novels, worthy to stand alongside the efforts of Sartre and Camus

LA Review of Books

The dialogue is brilliant, whether the subject is literature, love, Mondrian, jazz or the fallibility of science

Donald Keene, New York Times