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Author |
: José Donoso |
Publisher |
: David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1567920462 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781567920468 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Obscene Bird of Night by : José Donoso
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the great novels not only of Spanish America, but of our time" by Carlos Fuentes. The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monstrous mutation protected from the knowledge of his deformity by being surrounded with other freaks as companions, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative, visionary writing. Its luxuriance, fecundity, horror, and energy will not soon fade from the reader's mind -- Back cover
Author |
: José Donoso |
Publisher |
: Grove Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802133819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802133816 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Curfew by : José Donoso
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 the event to their advantage: for Pinochet's junta, it represents a chance to assert political authority, while for the intellectuals who had basked in the Nerudas' light, it is an opportunity to grab the spoils of the estate. Against this backdrop of complex, often conflicting motivations, Donoso weaves a portrait of a society struggling to fashion a daily existence for itself, and of an intelligentsia vainly attempting to salvage the remnants of glory days long gone by. But Curfew is also a story of the tragic love between Judit Torre, an upper-middle-class radical who wants to escape her bitter past; and Mañntilde;ungo Vera, a native son returning after a successful career as a European pop singer. In the zone between documentary-like realism and grotesque absurdity, Joséeacute; Donoso evokes the suffocating atmosphere of a country under dictatorship, and its quietly devastating effect on the actions of those who live there.
Author |
: José Donoso |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 1994-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0802133681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780802133687 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Garden Next Door by : José Donoso
A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocratic woman who inhabits it. But Julio's life - and career - unravel In Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, Nuria Monclus, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. The garden next door, however, is also Gloria, who has been doing some creating of her own. It is this twist that transforms Donoso's brilliant satire of the writer's life into something even greater: a carefully crafted and bitteily comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.
Author |
: Charles Michael Tatum |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1971 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:12178208 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fiction of José Donoso by : Charles Michael Tatum
Author |
: José Donoso |
Publisher |
: Hell Has No Limits 28 |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015061861673 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hell Has No Limits by : José Donoso
A reprint of the powerful novel by Chilean writers, José Donoso.
Author |
: José Donoso |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 18 |
Release |
: 2011-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810127029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810127024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lizard's Tale by : José Donoso
"At the center of The Lizard's Tale is Antonio Muñoz-Roa, a prominent painter whose circumstances bear a striking resemblance to Donoso's own when he wrote the novel. Hiding in his Barcelona apartment, obsessed with the ruins of his past, Muñoz-Roa relates the story of his flight to the small town of Dors with Luisa, his cousin, lover, and benefactor, after his scandalous defection from the 'Informalist' movement (an ironic reference to a contemporary Catalan art movement and possibly also a veiled allusion to the boom)."--P. [2] of jacket.
Author |
: José Donoso |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393311643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393311648 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Taratuta ; And, Still Life with Pipe by : José Donoso
These striking novellas are the witty crystalizations of Jose Donoso's concerns over a lifetime of writing. In them he poses many of the questions raised by his fellow Latin American writers, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, and Vargas Llosa. Taratuta is a mystery story in which a writer tries to track a slippery Russian revolutionary in history and in life. Still Life with Pipe shows the comeuppance of an ambitious man when he meets true art and can't escape its grasp.
Author |
: Augusto Roa Bastos |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 450 |
Release |
: 2019-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984898142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984898140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis I the Supreme by : Augusto Roa Bastos
I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.
Author |
: George R. McMurray |
Publisher |
: Boston : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1979 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105002598840 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis José Donoso by : George R. McMurray
Author |
: Pedro Lemebel |
Publisher |
: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2007-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802199485 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802199488 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Tender Matador by : Pedro Lemebel
As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin “an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game” (Kirkus Reviews). It is the spring of 1986, and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of Santiago’s many poor neighborhoods, a man known as the Queen of the Corner embroiders linens for the wealthy. A hopeless and lonely romantic, he listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots. Then he meets Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. And as the relationship between these two very different men blossoms, they find themselves caught in a revolution that could doom them both. By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel’s lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the mind of Pinochet himself as the world of Carlos and the Queen prepares to collide with the dictator’s own in “a wonderful snapshot of this period of Chile’s history . . . A touching tale of love and danger” (Booklist).