Chromos

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Chromos is the second novel of Spanish-born American writer Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), written in 1948 and published in 1990.

Composition and publication

Alfau described how he wrote the novel: "In the office between one document and another, I would write a paragraph or two. I then pasted together the whole book, as in a collage."[1] He completed it in 1948, but it was not published but not published until 1990[2] when Dalkey Archive Press released the first edition.[3]

Reception and legacy

The novel was nominated for a National Book Award[3] in 1990.[2]

Chromos had an influence on the works of fellow Spanish-American writer Eduardo Lago, whose Llámame Brooklyn shares stylistic, structural, and thematic similarities with Alfau's novel, such as a novel-within-a-novel.[4]

References

  1. Galasso 2010, p. 44.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Villeneuve 2013, p. 1.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Galasso 2010, p. 43.
  4. Galasso 2010, pp. 43–44.

Works cited

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Further reading

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