62: A Model Kit

{{short description|1968 novel by Julio Cortázar}}

{{Infobox book|

| name = 62: A Model Kit

| title_orig = 62/Modelo para armar

| translator = Gregory Rabassa

| image = Julio Cortázar - Sixty-two.jpeg

| caption = First edition

| author = Julio Cortázar

| illustrator =

| cover_artist =

| country = Argentina

| language = Spanish

| series =

| genre = Experimental, Antinovel

| publisher = Sudamericana

| pub_date = 1968

| english_pub_date = 1972

| media_type =

| pages =

| isbn = 978-0-8112-1437-7

| dewey= 863 21

| congress= PQ7797.C7145 S413 2000

| oclc= 42935685

}}

62: A Model Kit ({{langx|es|62/Modelo para armar|links=no}}) is a novel by Julio Cortázar published in 1968. It is considered the author's most experimental novel.{{cite book|last=Maguhn|first=Aurora|title=62: modelo para armar, o el armado del sentido en Julio Cortázar|year=1991|publisher=Equinoccio|isbn=9789802370429|pages=116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QhKzhHQnKwkC&q=62+Modelo+para+armar|accessdate=12 February 2013|chapter=Introducción}}

Characters

  • Juan, Argentinean interpreter.
  • Hélène, anesthesiologist living in Paris.
  • Polanco, Argentinean. Inseparable friend of Calac.
  • Calac, Argentine writer. Inseparable friend of Polanco.
  • Tell, Danish.
  • Marrast, sculptor.
  • Nicole, illustrator.
  • Celia, 17-year-old French student.
  • Austin, young English lutenist; former anonymous neurotic.
  • Frau Marta, old Viennese lady.
  • Monsieur Ochs, doll maker.
  • Harold Haroldson, superintendent of The Courtauld Institute of Art.

References

{{Julio Cortázar}}

Category:1968 Argentine novels

Category:Novels by Julio Cortázar

Category:Editorial Sudamericana books

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