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Jose Donoso
Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso's terrifying masterpiece sees the light of day
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Sensual and semi-fantastic, this erotic novel by Jose Donoso-for the first time in English-is a thrilling and unsettling exploration of identity via sexual desire
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A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife Gloria are beset by worries, constantly bickering about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the…
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Originally published in Spanish under the title Lagartija sin cola in 2007.
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Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn…
Primera novela del gran autor chileno Jose Donoso en la que prefigura los temas que marcaran su obra: decadencia, identidad, transgresion y locura…
Andres, solitario y cincuenton, es el desconcertado…
Un viaje por los laberintos de la identidad, la degradacion y el olvido. La novela cumbre de Jose Donoso.
La voz que narra El obsceno pajaro de la noche fluye…
Una novela intensa sobre los limites inciertos de la identidad, con el sello de uno de los grandes novelistas chilenos del siglo XX
Juego implicito con la ambiguedad de los…
Una novela unica en clave autoficcional sobre los egos revueltos del boom de la literatura latinoamericana.
Publicada en 1981, cuando Jose Donoso iniciaba su regreso a Chile, El jardin de…
Marie Murphy (Royalty Account)
A critique of the Chilean novelist’s A House in the country,studying particularly its representation of the many-faceted concept of “authority’.
Flora Gonzalez Mandri
This text examines the multiple narrative perspectives Donoso presents and traces a transformation in Donoso’s works from complex stage performance to political forum. It illuminates a weaving of feminine and…
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Pamela Finnegan
Provides a criticism of a major novel written by one of Chile’s leading literary figures. This book analyzes the symbolism and the use of language in The Obscene Bird of…
These striking novellas are the witty crystallizations of Jose Donoso’s concerns over a lifetime of writing.
Hermann Herlinghaus
Aus Romanen und Erzahlungen sprechen mehr als je zuvor die Vermittlungen anderer Medien. Die intertextuelle Faszination asthetischer Codes der Massenkultur steht jener der poetischen Traditionen nicht nach. Wie aber veranschaulicht…
Ignacio De Leon,Jose Fernandez Donoso
This book identifies the potential of intellectual property as a competitive asset for Latin American firms.
Jaime Vargas Cisternas,Jose Irrazabal Donoso
El crecimiento economico, como todo fenomeno complejo, es el resultado de muchos procesos que ocurren de manera simultanea dentro de una nacion. Tal es la complejidad que un ojo entrenado…
