{"product_id":"cronopios-and-famas-julio-cort-zar-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julio Cort痙ar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811214028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.25w x 0.46d","brand":"Julio Cort痙ar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051813761279,"sku":"9780811214025","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d83d65b2-164c-4762-9028-1420f15ea575.jpg?v=1685015322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cronopios-and-famas-julio-cort-zar-9780811214025","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}