The central character falls in with the Serpent Club in Paris, where he meets his love interest and her baby, Rocamadour, who dies in a pivotal scene.  
The protagonist of this work seeks an undefined utopia that he calls a "kibbutz of desire."  A lengthy philosophical discussion of acoustics is initiated by Gregorovius, and the protagonist lives for a time with Gekrepten while he works with Traveler's wife Talita at a circus that becomes a mental asylum.  The central character falls in with the Serpent Club in Paris, where he meets his love interest and her baby, Rocamadour, who dies in a pivotal scene.  The protagonist visits a favorite author of the Club after that man is run down by a car, and that author, Morelli, explains how to write an anti- novel in later chapters.  FTP, name this novel featuring La Maga and Horacio Oliveira with a "table of instructions" and 99 "expendable" chapters, a work of Jose Cortazar.
The protagonist of this work seeks an undefined utopia that he calls a "kibbutz of desire."  
{Hopscotch} or {Rayuela} (4) [AH]