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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instanceOf Argentine novel
experimental novel
novel
adaptedAs theatrical productions
author Julio Cortázar NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Argentina NERFINISHED
criticalReception highly acclaimed
firstEditionPlace Buenos Aires NERFINISHED
genre experimental literature
modernist novel
postmodern novel
hasCharacterGroup Club de la Serpiente NERFINISHED
hasISBN 9789500710369
hasNarrator first-person sections
third-person narrator
hasPart De otros lados NERFINISHED
Del lado de acá NERFINISHED
Del lado de allá NERFINISHED
hasTheme alienation
exile
existentialism
love
search for meaning
influenced Latin American experimental fiction
postmodern narrative techniques in Spanish-language literature
languageVariant Rioplatense Spanish NERFINISHED
literaryMovement Latin American Boom NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Horacio Oliveira NERFINISHED
La Maga NERFINISHED
Talita NERFINISHED
Traveler NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
setting Buenos Aires NERFINISHED
Paris NERFINISHED
structureFeature “capítulos prescindibles” (expendable chapters)
“tablero de dirección” (table of instructions)
timePeriodOfSetting mid-20th century
titleTranslation Hopscotch NERFINISHED

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