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    612-822-4611

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Cronopios and Famas

Cronopios and Famas

Blackburn, Paul
Cortázar, Julio

Paperback

Series: New Directions Classics, Book 0

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0811214028
ISBN13: 9780811214025
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Apr 17 1999
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.25 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
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.

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