Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortzar

Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortzar

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Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortzar

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.
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780811214025
ISBN 10 0811214028
Titre Cronopios and Famas
Auteur Julio Cortzar
Série New Directions Classic
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur New Directions Publishing Corporation
Année de publication 1999-12-01
Nombre de pages 162
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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