born Aug. 26, 1914, Brussels, Belg.
died Feb. 12, 1984, Paris, France
Argentine-French novelist and short-story writer.
Born to Argentine parents, he was educated in Argentina. His first story collection, Bestiario (1951; "Bestiary"), was published the year he moved to Paris, where he spent much of the rest of his life. His masterpiece, Hopscotch (1963), is an open-ended novel, or antinovel , in which the reader is invited to rearrange the chapters. One of his stories became the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni 's film Blow-up (1966).