text: This author wrote a story in which a hospitalized motorcyclist intermittently dreams of being a sacrificial victim.
full_question: This author wrote a story in which a hospitalized motorcyclist intermittently dreams of being a sacrificial victim. The protagonist of a novel by him barricades himself in a room filled with traps consisting of yarn and basins of water to protect himself from a circus worker. While walking along the Seine, the protagonist of another story by this author observes a woman seducing a teenage boy, and then enlarges a photograph he takes of the scene. He wrote a novel in which the protagonist confuses Talita, the wife of Traveler, with La Maga, a member of the bohemian Serpent Club. That book by him is about Horacio Oliveira, contains 99 expendable chapters, and can be read nonlinearly. For 10 points, name this Argentine author of Hopscotch.
first_sentence: This author wrote a story in which a hospitalized motorcyclist intermittently dreams of being a sacrificial victim.
raw_answer: Julio Cortazar [or Julio Florencio Cortazar]