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Book 1: Oliveira, an Argentine intellectual, wanders Paris with his lover La Maga, about whom he and his equally insufferable intellectual friends sigh in exasperation when she has them explain their erudite references. But does she hold the key for his quest to understand the true nature of reality? If this description and the instructions pictured don't sound like a good time...trust your instincts! But I liked this cerebral hodgepodge. 👇

“Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune. But love, that word...”

Reading this novel straight through first, and then I will jump chp to chp as Cortázar advises. This is not easy to read— the sentences are long, dense with metaphor and language, and filled with bits of French and allusions to art and music. I‘m enjoying the challenge though!

“Sо they had begun to walk about in a fabulous Paris, following routes born of a clochard phrase, of an attic lit up in the darkness of a street's end, stopping in little confidential squares to kiss on the benches or look at the hopscotch game, those childish rites of a pebble and a hop on one leg to get into Heaven, Home.”

#StarTrekSummerJune | 7: #MoveAlongHome

📷: Made with Typorama

So I‘ve been told about this book that it is, alternately, the greatest and most profoundly moving book of all time and that it is the most pretentious piece of crap ever put to paper. So naturally I have to figure out for myself which one it is.

...better late than never, I suppose?

The writing is beautiful. Pick this up if you want philosophy and beautiful prose. It is not always easy to understand and the main character is a dick. He drinks with his 'literary' friends, discusses music, philosophy etc. all with a disdain for everyone else's opinions, especially the women, whom they merely humor because they are so cute and frustrating when they are straining their inferior brains trying to understand the discussion. Grrrr.

"Há ausências que representam um verdadeiro triunfo. " julio cortazar {o jogo da amarelinha}

Sadly, I didn't read as much as I wanted, but, I did read some very good books

#AwesomeAutumnBooks By @Jess7 | Day 12
They're not all new authors, I guess: Tommy Wieringa, JĂşlio CortĂĄzar, Craig Thompson, James S. A. Corey and Neal Stephenson. But I've never read anything by these people, so it must count!

And this is part 2. The ones I have as ebook.#aprilbookshowers #day6 #publishedinthe1960s

This sounds like the ultimate choose your own adventure book.

First where the physical books and here are a few of the ones I have in digital format. Part 2/2 ... #riotgrams #day3 #onewordtitle #bookriot

From Argentina. Like the title suggests, the structure of this book is like a game of hopscotch. The book is divided into several chapters like any other book and you can read them from start to finish in order but the author invites you to play along by suggesting a special sequence of chapters which give a different read. This is one of the best books I've ever read in both content and structure.
#seasonsreadings2016 #notinenglish

A dog, a book and amazing quotes..."I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger, I am drawing it as if it were something my hand was sketching, as if for the first time your mouth opened a little, and all I have to do is close my eyes to erase it and start all over again (...), and which by some chance that I do not seek to understand coincides exactly with your mouth which smiles beneath the one my hand is sketching on you."

"another more secret and evasive freedom works on him, but only he (and then just barely) is conscious of its movements."

j. cortázar, you get me.