Upon learning that his childhood friend is returning, one character in this work kicks at a cat and proclaims that "life was a perfect fuckup." That character comforts his wife when she says "I don't want to be anybody's zombie." In a scene from this novel, a character straightens out nails for no reason, then asks for straight nails and some yerba to make a bridge between two buildings. That character was arrested after having sex with a homeless woman named Emmanuele, and was once a member of a group called the (*) "Serpent Club". He spirals into insanity, mistaking Traveler's wife Talita for his own vanished lover, La Maga, and watches Talita in the courtyard of a mental asylum playing the title game. For 10 points, name this book about Horacio Oliveira by Julio
Upon learning that his childhood friend is returning, one character in this work kicks at a cat and proclaims that "life was a perfect fuckup." That character comforts his wife when she says "I don't want to be anybody's zombie." In a scene from this novel, a character straightens out nails for no reason, then asks for straight nails and some yerba to make a bridge between two buildings. That character was arrested after having sex with a homeless woman named Emmanuele, and was once a member of a group called the (*) "Serpent Club". He spirals into insanity, mistaking Traveler's wife Talita for his own vanished lover, La Maga, and watches Talita in the courtyard of a mental asylum playing the title game. For 10 points, name this book about Horacio Oliveira by Julio Cortazar, whose chapters can be read in a variety of orders.
Upon learning that his childhood friend is returning, one character in this work kicks at a cat and proclaims that "life was a perfect fuckup.
Hopscotch [or Rayuela]