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Rayuela by Julio Cortázar

breadandmushrooms's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

electrozombie's review against another edition

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challenging funny lighthearted sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

rosabooks99's review against another edition

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challenging mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I get what the author was trying to do, it just didn't do it for me

emuggins's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

hauau's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

catearcagni's review against another edition

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3.0

no se, no entendí nada creo...

alixfitz0926's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

House of Leaves and Hopscotch are not very similar at first blush? but once you dig into Hopscotch and see how gleefully Cortazar plays with form and meta textual it’s it’s impossible not to see it as a clear influence on HOL. 
They also both feel like david lynch movies 

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astrobrite's review against another edition

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4.0

Está muy genial esta novela, aunque creo que más por la forma en qué está escrita que por la historia en sí.

La búsqueda del deseo es, básicamente, la búsqueda de la unidad; y la búsqueda de la unidad es una pretensión de la filosofía. El deseo, pues, es aquello que surge de la ausencia: no se desea lo aprehendido, sino la carencia. Este camino en busca del deseo y la unidad es una cosa de compromiso y angustia, creo yo. La filosofía, al fin y al cabo, es el constante cuestionamiento de todo, y esta novela bebe de la filosofía nihilista y de la literatura de la modernidad, donde "todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire", como calificaría Marx a esta era. Esto último que menciono se evidencia explícitamente en las conversaciones tan insoportables del Club de la Serpiente y en Horacio mismo: ese esnobismo con el que Cortázar no pretendía sino su negación, su sátira. Entiendo que aquello pueda cansar, hace unos 4 años intenté leer esta novela y me aburrí por esa razón.

En fin, está genial y ya, probablemente consiga la edición conmemorativa para leerla de la segunda forma planteada por Cortázar.

olichoreno's review against another edition

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5.0

Es interesante ver ciertos comentarios sobre el azar, la Serendipia entre palabras de Cortázar que años más tarde abordaría Taleb, mientras aquí el autor lo hizo con intención artística, más tarde sería remitido a la probabilidad y estadística

Por otra parte, el juego que propone el libro invita a la lectura, lo recomiendo, es como un juego

Su narrativa sigue la línea de Kundera, Nietzsche o Borges, bajo sus propios lineamientos

andriiipopa's review against another edition

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Even though I expected pretty much from this book, somehow it only managed to make me angry and confused. Safe to say it might not be everyone's cup of tea, given the fact that the narrators are prone to overly philosophical streams of consciousness and the characters become nothing more than transient figures of smoke and ideas. I only wish it would have been a more engaging read, because the philosophical discourse somehow raises a wall between the reader and the events of the novel. For me, at least, it was very difficult to follow up with the events all while keeping track of all the concepts and ideas that pop up during one of the many philosophical depates that appear throughout the novel.

However, I will say that this book did manage to make me feel strong empathy for La Maga's character and to feel repulsed by Oliveira's attitude towards her.

It's a 2⭐ for me, but it was definitely a nice bookish experiment, trying to read a book in a non-linear manner. Though for a perfectionist like myself, it certainly was a mental challenge.