Chromos
Chromos is the second novel of Spanish-born American writer Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), written in 1948 and published in 1990.
Composition and publication
[edit | edit source]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 not published until 1990[2] when Dalkey Archive Press released the first edition.[3]
Reception and legacy
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- ^ Galasso 2010, p. 44.
- ^ a b Villeneuve 2013, p. 1.
- ^ a b Galasso 2010, p. 43.
- ^ Galasso 2010, pp. 43–44.
Works cited
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Further reading
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