Historias de cronopios y de famas

"It so happened that a fama was dancing truce and dancing catala in front of a store full of cronopios and esperanzas. The most irritated were the esperanzas because they always want the famas not to dance truce or catala but espera, which is the dance that cronopios and esperanzas know."
Historias de cronopios y de famas (1962) is one of Julio Cortázar's legendary books. A postulate 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.