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    <body><![CDATA[Este librito ha crecido en mi mente después de haberlo terminado.  Hay muchas secciones que ni puedo empezar a explicar, pero ahora creo que las entiendo en otra manera.  Las más sencillas me gustan más; las secciones que se tratan de los cronopios y famas están tan allá de mi conocimiento que ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44830905">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[پابلو نرودا در مورد كورتاسار مي گويد:<br/>نخواندن كورتاسار بيماري لاعلاجي ست كه عوارضش بعدها معلوم ميشن  انگار كه به عمرت طعم هلو را نچشيده باشي  كم كم افسرده ميشوي و م...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35258338">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps because of the title and a misleading summary, I was hoping for something along the lines of &quot;Gargantua and Pantagruel.&quot; I was hoping, at least, for a character or two, since my version of &quot;Cronopios and Famas&quot; does not indicate anywhere that it is a collection of briefly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34228910">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the absurd, the commonplace all wrapped up in short bursts. these stories remind me of my attraction to the works of Borges and Walser]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic of prose poetry--a how-to of sorts, with a report on the Cronopios and Famas. I return to this often!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quirky. When I'm in a really quirky mood I love it as I love Borges. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Long out of print and now reissued in paperback, Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortzar, perhaps the greatest of Latin American novelists (author of Hopscotch and The Blow-Up and Other Stories). &quot;The Instruction Manual,&quot; the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. &quot;Unusual Occupations,&quot; the second chapter, describes the obsessions and predilections of the narrator's family, including the lodging of a tiger-just one tiger- &quot;for the sole purpose of seeing the mechanism at work in all its complexity.&quot; Finally, the &quot;Cronopios and Famas&quot; section delightfully characterizes, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, &quot;those enemies of pomposity, academic rigor mortis and cardboard celebrity-a band of literary Marx Brothers.&quot; As the Saturday Review remarked: &quot;Each page of Cronopios and Famas sparkles with vivid satire that goes to the heart of human character and, in the best pieces, to the essence of the human condition.&quot;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delightful and thought-provoking. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[acho que sou cronópio...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good intro to Cortazar. Funny, quick pieces about mythical creatures and a delightfully deranged family. Don't expect his other works to be as light and whimsical, but it helps to understand his sense of humor before you move on to Hopscotch or The Winners. After you finish it, you'll wish you cou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22304490">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the ideal introduction to one of the best fiction writers ever to have written and my favorite author. This book has a line that I etched into a bracelet and wore for two years. This book changed my way of thinking. This book breathes life into the room by way of the trap door. Cronopio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5293487">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Constellations of short-short pieces that aren't about common characters so much as about a worldview.  Not explicitly philosophical so much as imagistically textural.  And funny in an absurd fashion.<br/><br/>Brightly delightful.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i don't even know what to say about this book.  i once copied chapters of it (its more like page-long vignettes than short stories) folded them, and put them in a grab-box as a gift for a friend.  its that good.]]></body>
    
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