Julio Cortázar ; Paul Blackburn. creator Julio Cortázar. text Fiction.-English Fiction-Julio Cortázar xxu New York : New Directions Pub. Corp. , 1999 monographic eng

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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." /Julio Cortázar. 863 COR 9780811214025 International Book Distributors 17, Prakash Apartment, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj , New Delhi. 180411 20180411113527.0