Title: Historias de cronopios y de famas
First published: December 1995
Description: "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."
Subjects: Folklore, Essays (single author), Argentine fiction, Translations into English, Spanish fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Narración de cuentos, Spanish language materials, Materiales en español
Places: Spain
LC classification: PZ3.C81929 Cr, PQ7797.C7145 Cr