MLN | 2019
Remembering the Sixties: On Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch and Time
Abstract
We live in times of remembrance.2 The past decade has been one of countless public gatherings and academic conferences, new editions and special issues, art installations and even Hollywood films observing the fiftieth anniversary of the many great books, figures, and events of the sixties. This has been the case particularly during the recent flurry of activities surrounding the anniversary of the 1968 global uprising, although every year of the 2010s has included various opportunities to memorialize what happened during the corresponding year in the 1960s. How the past is remembered is nevertheless far more important