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Cronopio (literature)

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and sensitive creatures, who stand in contrast or opposition to famas (who are rigid, organized and judgmental if well-intentioned) and esperanzas (who are plain, indolent, unimaginative and dull).
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on 1959-03-27 Cortázar writes that human characteristics of cronopios appeared later, while writing other stories. These demonstrate aspects of cronopios' personalities, habits, and inclinations.
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first came to him in that same theater some time before this concert in the form of an imaginary vision of small green globes floating around the semi-deserted theater.
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consider Cortazar's cronopios stories as lesser works compared to other of the author's novels and short stories. Others have looked for hidden
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eventually became a kind of honorific, applied by Cortázar (and others) to friends, as in the dedication to the English-language edition of
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of human beings. Cortázar himself described these stories as a sort of "game" and asserted that writing them gave him great joy.
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In his stories Cortázar describes few physical features of cronopios. He does refer to them (in one of the early stories
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and Cortazar continued to write about cronopios, famas, and esperanzas in other texts through the 1960s.
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References to cronopios in Cortázar's work occur in 20 short sketches that make up the last section of
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which were collected in a French edition he considered definitive. Some
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is a type of fictional person appearing in works by
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Index

Argentine
Julio Cortázar
famas
short stories
Historias de cronopios y de famas
idealistic
unconventional
Paul Blackburn
Buenos Aires Literaria
Louis Armstrong
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Paris
literary critics
metaphysical
taxonomy
62: A Model Kit
dryolestoid
Cronopio dentiacutus
"Cartas marcadas, ¿De dónde salieron los cronopios?"
"Tiny but toothy mammal unearthed"
Historias de Cronopios y de Famas
v
t
e
Julio Cortázar
The Winners
Hopscotch
62: A Model Kit
Libro de Manuel
Bestiario

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