Cronopios and Famas
by Julio Cortázar
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"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."
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Cronopios and Famas
April 1, 1999, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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in English
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Historias de cronopios y de famas
1994, Juan Bravo, Alfaguara
in Spanish
- 7. ed.
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Cronopios and Famas
January 1, 1994, Marion Boyars Publishers
Paperback
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