"cronopios y famas". any spanish speakers out there? what is a cronopio?

Answer 1

From wikipedia:

"A cronopio is a fictional species of creature appearing in works by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. Together with famas and esperanzas, cronopios are the subject of several short stories in his 1962 book Historias de Cronopios y de Famas.

"Cortázar first used the word cronopio in a 1952 article published in Buenos Aires Literaria reviewing a Louis Armstrong concert given in November of that year in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The article was entitled Louis, Enormísimo Cronopio ('Louis, Most Enormous Cronopio'). Cortázar would later describe in various interviews how the name cronopio first came to him in that same theater some time before this concert in the form of an imaginary vision of small green globes floating around the semi-deserted theater.

"In his stories Cortázar avoids providing a precise physical description of cronopios, referring to them only as 'those greenish, frizzly, wet objects.' His stories do provide some clues to the cronopios' personality, habits and artistic inclinations. In general, cronopios are depicted as naive and idealistic, disorganized, unconventional, and sensitive creatures, who stand in stark contrast, if not in opposition, to famas (who are rigid, organized and judgemental if well intentioned) and esperanzas (who are plain, indolent, ignorant and dull)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio

Answer 2

apparently, a cronopio is a fictional creature that appears in the works of argentine writer Julio Cortazar, and "Historias de Cronopios y de Famas" is one collection of those stories.
(Hmmm, it really got me interested, thanks for your question!)

Answer 3

yes im a spanish speaker....r u sure thats a word??? i've heard of "crono-" but not that word....

Answer 4

www.spanishdictionary.com