Cortazar

I'm in the middle of a Hopscotch re-read and I'd like to hear some opinions by other people who have also read it.

Or, in any case, anything else by Cortazar.

The best cortazar is a mediocre borges

His short stories are the shit

I'm sure I read something by him. But literary the only thing I can remember is that he had a cat named "Theodor W. Adorno". Which is funny by itself, but at least for me it makes him forgettable as a writer.

Yes. Can someone prove this wrong?

Hah. I am inclined to agree, in a way. Borges can do the same Cortazar does with half the words and half the references to literature and "pop" culture.

I had mostly read those, but Hopscotch was a pleasant surprise. Well. About pleasant. First time I read it from chapter 1 to 56 (I believe), the last one. And it didn't quite leave a lasting impression on me. I liked the France chapters a lot more. And at the very least ONE chapter was memorable enough. (In which the absurdity of life is discussed by the Club while they keep waiting for the inevitable moment in which La Maga discovers baby Rocamadour is dead).

Now I'm skipping around chapters in the recommended order and I'm really getting a lot more from it. The meta content of Morelli's theories strengthens the main narrative.

Think that just makes you a forgettable reader.

It was too stupid to bother with as they are almost nothing alike.

For personal favorite short stories of his there's "House taken over", "The Southern Highway", "Letter to a young lady in Paris" and "Miss Cora".

>I'm a nobody who thinks he has the right to shit on one of the greatest writers of his time and whose work Borges himself ranked higher than anyone else.

Could've just said 'no'