by Julio Cortázar · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466320290
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«Historias de cronopios y de famas» is the book of short stories and vignettes by Julio Cortázar published by Punto de Lectura in hardcover (160 pages, in Spanish).
An unclassifiable work by the Argentine writer in which manuals, short stories and vignettes featuring cronopios, famas and esperanzas coexist. With surreal humor and a poetic gaze, Cortázar plays with language and logic to portray routine, identity and creative imagination.
The volume includes the sections «Manual de instrucciones», «Ocupaciones raras», «Material plástico» and «Historias de cronopios y de famas». The work was originally published in 1962.
Recommended for readers of Hispanic American narrative and for those seeking a gateway into the work of Julio Cortázar.
Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
