Cronopios and famas
Original title: Historias de cronopios y de famas
Translated by Paul Blackburn earliest edition we have, 1976 Boyars, 1990 paperback 162 pages
"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 delight...
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