Quote by Julio Cortázar: “The game is not over until it is over, and it is never really over.”

Even when things seem concluded — a relationship, a conflict, a chapter of your life — the effects continue. Endings in real life are rarely clean. Something always carries forward. This is less pessimistic than it sounds: it also means recovery and change are always still possible.

Cortázar published Hopscotch in 1963, a novel the reader can navigate in multiple orders, reflecting a generation's rejection of linear narratives in literature and politics. Latin America was in the early years of its revolutionary period, with the Cuban Revolution having overturned assumptions about political possibility.

Argentine novelist and short story writer, a central figure of the Latin American Boom, celebrated for his experimental novel Hopscotch and his inventive, labyrinthine short fiction. He lived most of his adult life in Paris, where he remained an outspoken critic of Latin American dictatorships.