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Julio Cortazar writes: “For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.” (From: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds). In “Hopscotch” the chapters of the book can be read in two possible ways, either straight through the regular chapters, or by following the author’s indications at the end of each chapter. The myriad of connections and magic circuits bring endless delight to the avid reader. Lewis Carroll has created in “Alice in Wonderland” a number of great characters. My personal favourite, the Cheshire Cat, can appear and vanish unexpectedly, only leaving his mischievous grin behind.
Recent experiments in physics proved the possibility of separating a particle from its physical properties and thus the existence of a so called “quantum Cheshire Cat”. In “The Alexandria Quartet”, a tetralogy by Lawrence Durrell, the author presents in the first three volumes of the series the same events from different perspectives, each pertaining to a certain character. Time, as we know it, only starts flowing in the last book of the installment.