Cronopios and Famas
Cortázar, Julio / Blackburn, Paul
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 th...