Chromos
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
ISBN-10
1564782042
ISBN-13
9781564782045
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint
Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 18th, 1999
Print length
348 Pages
Weight
535 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 15.20 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gaddis. Chromos is the American immigration novel par excellence. Its opening line is: "The moment one learns English, complications set in." Or, as the novel illustrates, the moment one comes to America, the complications set in. The cast of characters in this book are immigrants from Spain who have one leg in Spanish culture and the other in the confusing, warped, unfriendly New World of New York City, attempting to meld two worlds that just won't fit together. Wildly comic, Chromos is also strangely apocalyptic, moving towards point zero and utter darkness.
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