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Julio Cortazar

Written and published in 1963 in Paris, Rayuela is Julio Cortázar's second novel and one of the emblematic works of the literary movement known as the Latin American Boom. In it, the Argentine writer breaks with the established canons around the concept of the novel, claiming the importance of the active role of the reader, who is asked, on the first page, to decide in which order he wants to read the book he has just opened. Some critics began to refer to Rayuela as the anti-novel, although Cortázar always preferred the term counter-novel, which does not deny but rather subverts its nature through the search for a new relationship between the work and the reader in which the latter participates; in which the reader plays and jumps through the pages, on one leg, until reaching the sky...