{"product_id":"cronopios-and-famas-9780811214025","title":"Cronopios and Famas","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.\" As the \u003cem\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/em\u003e remarked: \"Each page of \u003cem\u003eCronopios and Famas\u003c\/em\u003e sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCortázar, Julio:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJulio Cortázar\u003c\/strong\u003e (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 revolutionary Latin American politics.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlackburn, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Blackburn\u003c\/strong\u003e (November 24, 1926-September 13, 1971) was an American poet. He influenced contemporary literature through his poetry, translations and the encouragement and support he offered to fellow poets.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50720814039314,"sku":"9780811214025","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97437cf1-98c4-44db-be6c-4cd7d368100d.jpg?v=1734677004","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cronopios-and-famas-9780811214025","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}