Cronopios and famas.
Julio Cortázar ; Paul Blackburn.
Cronopios and famas. /Julio Cortázar. - New York : New Directions Pub. Corp. , 1999. - 161 pages ; 20 cm.
"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." As the Saturday Review remarked: "Each page of Cronopios and Famas sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition."
9780811214025
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Fiction.--English Fiction--Julio Cortázar
863 COR
Cronopios and famas. /Julio Cortázar. - New York : New Directions Pub. Corp. , 1999. - 161 pages ; 20 cm.
"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." As the Saturday Review remarked: "Each page of Cronopios and Famas sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition."
9780811214025
International Book Distributors 17, Prakash Apartment, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj , New Delhi.
Fiction.--English Fiction--Julio Cortázar
863 COR
