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...GAME by Julio Cortázar. 277 pages. Pantheon...
...them, the editorial brass are all relative youngsters-a 25-year-old city editor, a 30-year-old sports editor, a 24-year-old telegraph editor. Last month the paper got a new managing editor, Bob Haiman, 30. The Times needed a new managing editor because the old one, Cort Anderson, 30, had been chosen for a top Cowles editorial slot on a new paper being considered for Suffolk County...
Glints of Skill. Behind Cortázar's stubbornly obscurantist prose falls the shadow of a story. Its central figure is Oliveira, one of a group of frayed Left Bank intellectuals who read Carson McCullers, play old Coleman Hawkins records and dither boozily about reality. Oliveira is a man suffering from "world-ache" and Baudelairean tastes; the two go together. He is later seen in Buenos Aires, where he has gone either to look for La Maga, whom he has lost, or for his own identity, which he has never found. In the company of old friends, he meanders...
...Cortázar, 51, an Argentine novelist now living in Paris, has already evoked comparisons with Sterne, Proust and Joyce, and certainly Hopscotch's obfuscation is occasionally relieved by glints of unmistakable skill. Here and there a single sentence escapes the darkness with epigrammatic force: "All madness is a dream that has taken root...
...that scarcely excuses the darkness. To compare Cortázar to Sterne, who was one of his models, is to measure the vast difference between a severely disciplined though innovationist literary-talent and one that, however sophisticated, is hung up on literary games...