Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.
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胡利奥·科塔萨尔(1914-1984),阿根廷作家,拉美“文学爆炸”的代表人物之一,短篇小说大师。1951年移居法国,曾任联合国教科文组织译员。1963年以长篇小说《跳房子》震惊文坛,同时著有多部短篇小说集、诗集、一部研究济慈的专著,以及若干文体上难以归类的作品。他热爱爵士乐,曾一度支持古巴革命。
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