Chromos / by Felipe Alfau ; introduction by Joseph Coates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alfau, Felipe, 1902-1999.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spanish Americans--Fiction.

Spanish Americans.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Immigrants--Fiction.

Immigrants.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Fiction.

Black humor (Literature)

Humorous fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix, 348 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Dalkey Archive paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1999.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

"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 Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gaddis."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."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1564782042

9781564782045

OCLC:

40983604