摘要

The fictional Italian author Morelli is throughout the novel "Hopscotch" (1963)Julio Cortazar's alter ego. This character proposes an unoriginal literary hypothesis in chapter 62. There is an allusion to a particular Swedish that is working on a chemical theory of thought The Swedish neuroscientist under analysis is Holger Hyden (1917-2000), by then professor and chairman of the Department of Histology at the University of Goteborg. Hyden, who was the first to work in neurobiological micromethods, is mentioned by Morelli due to his participation in a symposium held at the end of January 1961, in San Francisco. His pioneering work will never be completely forgotten, because Hyden's neuroscientific legacy lives and will live in Cortazar's "Hopscotch".

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