Cortazar, Julio

New York. 1972. November 1972. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394468228. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. 281 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Kenneth Miyamoto . keywords: Literature Translated Argentina Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his fifth work of fiction to be published for the American reader, Argentine writer Julio Cortázar again displays the virtuoso talent which has won him international acclaim. Here again is the Cortázar world, a special place of fantasy, comedy, cities, snatches of conversations and brief encounters; of characters' lives which begin at any moment and end in intense, brilliant encounters with others on a train, in poignant love-making, or at a restaurant. The construction of this world is so free and open, without the usual restraints of traditional novelistic order, as to take the reader on a daring and exciting new experience of life itself. An offshoot of a previous book, the new novel takes its title from Chapter 62 of Hopscotch, in which the character Morelli contemplates writing a novel based only on a few scattered notes and in which standard behavior would be inexplicable by means of current instrumental psychology. 62: A MODEL KIT can be read quite on its own, however, having its own group of characters in the City- that mediumnic meeting place where people who live in Paris, London, and Vienna are able to meet, or not to meet - where Fate is waiting to close the games. inventory #2225 ISBN: 0394468228.