Book review_ "Historias de cronopios y famas"_ J. Cortázar
This is the last book i remember i liked very much. I’ve been reading books from this great author since high school, so i already knew the type of literature i was in front of... Cortazar’s oniric-freak world, short stories, dense paragraphs, interesting characters that live in this limbo between the real-surreal world, narrated in metaphors that inmerse you in it.
Two years ago, a friend of mine that also like Cortazar, told me about this particular title...the first thing i ask her about it was: ..." what’ s a cronopio??!"...She couldn’t answer me that, so she read the book to make it easier for me. She didn’t end the page before i ask her to lend it to me.
The book is divided on 4 parts: instructions manual, Rare ocupations, Plastic material and historias de cronopios y famas. Each one contains many short one- page stories. In the last part (the one i remember), he, basically describes different costumes, lenguages and, most important, different ways o seing life of some undifined beings categorized in: cronopios, famas and esperanzas, who live in the same world, but in parallel dimensions.
This isn’t a fantastic story like Tolken’s Lord of the ring or anything like that, it’s just an abstraction of the real world, real life, where you actually can get the essence of human nature by different psychological profiles characterized by this strange beings in surreal- humoristic stories that undermine the trivial-mechanized rationalism of the everyday world.
Great-funny book...unavoidably makes you think about everyone else and even yourself as one of these beings. I laughed a lot ....read it !
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I read Rayuela which was amazing (although I got lost at times because I read it in Spanish). Half the time I didn't know if the story was in Paris or Buenos Aires.
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