The stories, which have never been published, are part of the original typed manuscript of 'Historias de Cronopios y de Famas' dated in Paris in 1952, found in a private library.

The manuscript of "Historias de Cronopios y de Famas" by the Argentine Julio Cortázar, which includes seven unpublished stories by the star of the Latin American literary boom, will be auctioned in Montevideo this October 12, as announced this Monday by those responsible.

The manuscript “appeared in Montevideo, in the private library of an individual who had died. It was in a box which had not been inventoried.  How it ended up there is unknown," Guillermo González, from Zorrilla Subastas, explained to AFP, which, together with the Hilario house, will auction the piece this October 12.

The document, typewritten with Cortázar's handwritten margin annotations, is dated Paris in 1952 and contains 46 short stories on 60 sheets printed on one side. Of the total stories, 35 appeared almost without variants in the first edition of 'Historias de Cronopios y de Famas' (Editorial Minotauro, Buenos Aires, 1962) and another four were published later.

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