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Restored in the end to his hospital bed, Spindrift ponders, along with the reader, the ageless riddle of reality. Do Ippo and the others owe their existence to the anesthesiologist? Did he surprise Sheila, his unfaithful wife, in flagrante delicto? Was the tumor removed? Was there a tumor? Uncertain and yearning to know, he ventures out again and at once bumps into Ippo, a walking advert for JOE'S ALL-NIGHT SAUSAGES...
...exacting standards of Julio Cortázar, a lazy reader is one who expects the author to do all the work. Such a reader assumes that a story will unwind consecutively, rationally, grammatically, before his indolent eyes. The sentences parse, the paragraphs link, the chapters march, good soldiers all, to a dramatically acceptable denouement. So much for the lazy reader. Author Cortázar wants nothing to do with...
Path of Obstacles. Hopscotch is aptly named. Not since Ulysses have so many obstacles strewn the path of understanding. The first 56 chapters are to be read in numerical order. At that point the reader, obeying Cortázar's Table of Instructions, is asked to leapfrog ahead to Chapter 73 and then hopscotch about in all directions on a course that, if followed, means reading 56 chapters twice and one chapter four times-all told, 900 pages...
...public one that millions found appalling or appealing. His other works (The Eye, Pale Fire, Pnin, etc.) have been more complex fantasies. One of them is this prophetic, satirical play, written in 1938 and now gracefully translated from the Russian by Author Nabokov and his son Dmitri. The reader can scarcely imagine its being successfully performed, but its characteristically savage humor and verbal inventiveness will be earnestly devoured by the large American colony of Nabokovites...
...satirized the pursuit of absolute pleasure and absolute power. His text is fretted with his customary puns, double-entendres, and literary allusions. More important, in the play's final scene Nabokov reveals that Waltz's demonic invention, and his successful rise to power, and-for all the reader knows-most of the fools, fops, frauds, pacifists, pederasts, know-nothings and impotents who people the play, have been merely the fantasies of Waltz's buzzing brain. This whole monstrous world, suggests Nabokov, is just a madman's dream. Does Waltz speak for Nabokov? Nabokov says nyet...