Cronopios and Famas - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Julio Cortázar, Paul Blackburn (Translator)Series:New Directions Classics #0Publish date:1999-04-17Pages:162
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811214025ISBN-10:811214028UPC:9780811214025Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.98 x 5.25 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCDJFA189F
Cronopios and Famas
"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...
Series: New Directions Classics #0
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811214025ISBN-10:811214028UPC:9780811214025Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:7.98 x 5.25 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCDJFA189F
Cortázar, Julio: - Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Argentine novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer, was born in Brussels, and moved permanently to France in 1951. Cortazar is now recognized as one of the century's major experimental writers, reflecting the influence of French surrealism, psychoanalysis, and his love of both photography and jazz, along with his strong commitment to...
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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