Alfau - Chromos

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DEZE NEDERLANDSE EDITIE VERSCHEEN BIJ BERT BAKKER IN 1990<br /><br />Het hoogtepunt van deze roman wordt gevormd door een losbandig feest van epische allures met Spaanse dansers en kwijnende acteurs, bizarre fantasten, wiskundegenieën, zangers en andere vertegenwoordigers van de Spaanse kolonie in Amerika.<br /><br />Chromos is the second novel of Spanish-born (Barcelona) American writer Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), written in 1948 and published in 1990.<br /><br />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."<br /><br />He completed it in 1948, but not published until 1990 when Dalkey Archive Press released the first edition.<br /><br />The novel was nominated for a National Book Award in 1990.<br /><br />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.