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title: "Cronopios and Famas"
brand: "julio cortázar"
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# Cronopios and Famas

**Brand:** julio cortázar
**Price:** VT8193
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- **What is this?** Cronopios and Famas by julio cortázar
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Cronopios and Famas

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## Customer Reviews

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    What about the Esperanzas?
  

*by L***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2013*

This is a book of short stories, sketches, and poems by the great Argentinian writer, Julio Cortazar. A quick read, but not quick to forget. Humorous little anecdotes, touching little thoughts, bizarre situations brought about by bizarre characters.The first tiny section draws your attention to routines you probably perform every day, like climbing stairs, or combing your hair, while teaching you to be less thoughtless about them. Or maybe it suggests how there is no real thoughtlessness in anything, no boredom in acts or objects, but magic in everything. I'm not sure which.Then there is a brilliant, hilarious little series of sketches (can't really call them stories) about a family who likes to engage in "interesting occupations," rather than real work. They build a gallows in their garden, house a tiger in their living room, turn wakes into competitive events, etc. Much to the astounded outrage of their neighbors, who seem to want all this lead to something definite, rather than stop. In fact, it's the seemingly purposelessness of the occupations that get under their skin, not the doing of them.A short, but pointed series of superficial observations follows, the highlight of which concerns an individual whose imagination is so powerful as to divide the parts from the whole: by concentrating on ears, for example, the person vanishes and he sees just ears. A room full of people? A room full of floating pairs of ears. Just imagine what he does with digestive processes.And then the vaunted Cronopios and Famas (but what about the Esperanzas?), which are mostly allegorical sketches, or symbolic short stories. Cortazar has labelled certain types of people as belonging to one of these three groups (although it's far from sure what he's going by -- temperment? political inclination? social position?), and in the sketches he proceeds to relate what they're like, and more importantly, how they relate to each other, with every fictional act (apparently absurd act) symbolising a real world one, that likely involves lives and/or real livelihood. And of the course the reader is left to puzzle out the connections. Half the fun, right?This is a short read, and definitely lighter in tone than most of Cortazar's other works -- so maybe that is one of the reasons why it's so popular?But no, probably just because it's a really clever book and fun to read. I breezed through it in couple nights and loved every moment.My one complaint? Well, there's just not enough of it. Pricey for something you can digest in only a few hours.

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    Super Quick Read!
  

*by L***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2009*

I really enjoyed this book and although it is short, it is very interesting and a super quick read!I have made multiple attempts to read his book "Hopscotch" and have never fully read it unfortunately. I decided it was time to read another book of his and the description of "Cronopios and Famas" sounded really cool.  I'm so glad I read it because now I cannot wait to delve into "Hopscotch" again!Julio Cortazar is an amazing writer and a must for anyone interested in latin american fiction or fiction in general!!

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    Absurdly Brilliant
  

*by C***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2011*

Cortazar is one of the most amazing authors I have ever read.  His books have a brilliance to them that is hard to explain. He is an absolute master at evoking some feeling in one moment, then bringing out another in the next.  This is one of those works.  This may well be the funniest books I've ever read.  It is packed with humor that ranges from amusing descriptions in "The Instruction Manual" to seriously funny sketches in "Cronopios and Famas."  Meanwhile, the text is infused at some points with a sense of wistfulness and light melancholy.  But what really sticks with the reader is the sense of awe he evokes, and above all else, a wonder seen in few other works.

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