Cronopios and Famas

Name: Cronopios and Famas
ISBN: 9780811214025

Julio Cortázar

1995·161 pages

Fantasy Literary Fiction

classics dreamy folklore magical realism short stories

“those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers.”
— Carlos Fuentes

"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

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