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Synopsis
A controversial finalist for the National Book Award in 1990, Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, Chromos anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come alongBarth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gaddis. On one level, 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 the two worlds that just wont fit together. While wildly comic and populated with some of the most bizarre characters, Chromos is also strangely apocalyptic, moving towards point zero and utter darkness.
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Review
"Written in the 1940s, this second and only other novel by the author of Locos is a surreal set of stories within stories about colorful Spanish exiles living in New York City." -- PW "Richly aphoristic, with titillating digressions into mathematics and metaphysics and with many Spanish words left untranslated, this book represents intellectual fiction at its best." -- Library Journal
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Joseph Coates is the author of 2025: Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology.
Joseph Coates is the author of 2025: Scenarios of US and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology.
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Chromos
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Dalkey Archive Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 091658352X
ISBN 13: 9780916583521
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