Chromos - Softcover

Alfau, Felipe

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ISBN 10: 0679734430 ISBN 13: 9780679734437

Publisher: Vintage, 1991

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Describes the difficulties faced by a group of Spanish exiles living in New York City during the 1940s

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Joseph Coates is the author of 2025: Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology.

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This kaleidoscopic novel was written in 1948 and is here offered in English for the first time after the recent reissue of the same author's Locos ( LJ 2/1/89). The focus is on a group of "Americaniards," Spaniards residing in New York City who, although healthy back home, have become hypochondriacal and readily indulge in delusions of mediocrity. Typical is the writer Garcia, who is adept at loitering in a city remarkable for its absence of cafe life and who sells to lesser Latin American reviews an article invariably about New York, a short story invariably about Spain, or a poem invariably about himself. With the hapless narrator, Garcia shares long segments of his deliberately corny novel about a merchant family of Madrid whose third-generation males fall prey to sexual perversions. Richly aphoristic, with titillating digressions into mathematics and metaphysics and with many Spanish words left untranslated, this book represents intellectual fiction at its best.
- Jack Shreve, Allegany Community Coll., Cumberland, Md.
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