"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 Saturday Review remarked: "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."
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