Cronopios and Famas
by Julio CortazarEstimated delivery 3-12 business days
Format Paperback
Condition Brand New
Description Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortazar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists.
"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 CortAA zar was born in Brussels, Belgium, of Argentine parents abroad on business. When he was four years old, his family returned to Buenos Aires, where he grew up in a suburb. CortAA zar attended the Escuela Normal de Profesores Mariano Acosta, a teachers' training college. In 1935 he received a degree as a secondary-level teacher. He studied then two years at the University of Buenos Aires and taught in secondary schools in BolAAvar, Chivilcoy, and Mendoza. In 1944-45 he was a professor of French literature at the University of Cuyo, Mendoza. CortAA zar joined there a protest against
- ISBN 0811214028
- ISBN-13 9780811214025
- Title Cronopios and Famas
- Author Julio Cortazar
- Format Paperback
- Year 1999
- Pages 161
- Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
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