What Does a Novel Look Like From the Inside?

AI Reveals the Hidden Architecture of Cortázar’s Rayuela Carlos Crespo Macaya · 2026 In the first pages of Rayuela, before you read a single chapter, Cortázar gives you a choice. You can read the novel straight through - 1 to 56 - like any other book. Or you can follow the Tablero de Dirección, a hopscotch path that leaps between all 155 in an order the author prescribes: 73, 1, 2, 116, 3, 84, 4, 71… Readers and scholars have argued about these two paths for sixty years.