historias de cronopios y de famas

"It happened that a fame danced truce and danced catalan in front of a warehouse full of chronopios and hopes. The most irritated were the hopes because they always seek that the fames do not dance truce or catalan but wait, which is the dance that the chronopios and hopes know."
Historias de cronopios y de famas (1962) is one of Julio Cortázar's legendary books. A postulation of a poetic gaze capable of confronting the miseries of routine and common sense, Cortázar here takes sides with creative imagination, the corrosive humor of the surrealists, and the transcendental absurdity of pataphysics. This collection of endearing stories, instructions, and vignettes is a privileged gateway to the inexhaustible world of one of the greatest writers of this century and a sure antidote against solemnity and boredom. Without a doubt, with this book Cortázar seals a pact of definitive and unconditional complicity with his readers.