Selected Cronicas

NOTES

* Publisher’s note: New Directions’ Selected Crônicas presents about two-thirds of the chronicles contained in A Descoberta do Mundo, and were selected from the complete U.K. edition of Discovering the World (Carcanet Press Ltd., 1992). This introduction by translator Giovanni Pontiero has likewise been adapted.

P.S. — I am united, body and soul, with the students of Brazil in their tragic plight.

* Zapateodo: the tap-dancing peculiar to Spanish flamenco.

* maja: low-class woman (especially in Madrid).

* An old Carnival song associated with the late Carmen Miranda.

PS: Could I ask the kind person who converts my column into Braille for the blind to omit this particular article. I have no desire to offend eyes which cannot see.