A Classic Cortázar Novel Is Back 

This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on China and Latin America "What good is a writer if he can’t destroy literature” wrote Julio Cortázar in his seminal work, Hopscotch, in 1963. Sixteen years later, he came out with a new novel that showed, above anything else, that very desire to do away with the rules of literature. Fragmented, absurd, with troves of playful language, and following an eccentric character’s ramblings, A Certain Lucas is everything one expects of Cortázar and, therefore, nothing one expects of a novel. His whimsical work, translated by...

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