Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much: Introduction by Ilan Stavans

These three groundbreaking works by Julio Cortázar-a major figure of world literature and one of the founders of the Latin American Boom-are published together in one volume for the first time, in honor of the centenary of his birth.

With his influential "counternovel" HOPSCOTCH and his unforgettable short stories, Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. HOPSCOTCH is a nonlinear novel about an Argentinean writer living in Paris; it consists of 155...