Cronopios and Famas
of Julio CortĂĄzar, Paul Blackburn (Translator), ÎλÎΜη ΧαÏαÏÏÎź (Translator)
Description
"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- "for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity." Finally, the "Cronopios and Famas" section delightfully characterizes, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers."
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 162 pages
- Publisher New Directions
- Publication Date April 17th 1999
- First Publication 10/28/62
- Language English
- ISBN 9780811214025
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
- Scenario ['Argentina']
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