Rayuela

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Rayuela is an influential experimental novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, renowned for its nonlinear structure and central role in the Latin American literary Boom.

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Rayuela canonical 3

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instanceOf Argentine novel
experimental novel
novel
adaptedAs theatrical productions
author Julio Cortázar
countryOfOrigin Argentina
criticalReception highly acclaimed
firstEditionPlace Buenos Aires
genre experimental literature
modernist novel
postmodern novel
hasCharacterGroup Club de la Serpiente
hasISBN 9789500710369
hasNarrator first-person sections
third-person narrator
hasPart De otros lados
Del lado de acá
Del lado de allá
hasTheme alienation
exile
existentialism
love
search for meaning
influenced Latin American experimental fiction
postmodern narrative techniques in Spanish-language literature
languageVariant Rioplatense Spanish
literaryMovement Latin American Boom
mainCharacter Horacio Oliveira
La Maga
Talita
Traveler
mediaType print
narrativeStructure nonlinear
narrativeTechnique multiple reading orders
notableFor open structure allowing different reading sequences
reader participation in constructing the story
originalLanguage Spanish
pageCount ~600
partOf 20th-century Latin American literature canon
publicationYear 1963
publisher Editorial Sudamericana
setting Buenos Aires
Paris
structureFeature “capítulos prescindibles” (expendable chapters)
“tablero de dirección” (table of instructions)
timePeriodOfSetting mid-20th century
titleTranslation Hopscotch

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Julio Cortázar notableWork Rayuela
Hopscotch originalTitle Rayuela