Explains how the so-called Boom came into being, linking changes in the Spanish American novel to the growing sophistication among Latin American writers

The Boom in Spanish American Literature: A Personal History

Donoso, José

Columbia University Press in association with the Center for Inter-American Relations

Boom in Spanish-American Literature: A Personal History (Center for Inter-American Relations)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Columbia Univ. Pr.

In Taratuta, the man meets a descendant of the Russian revolutionary whose biography he is penning, and in Still Life with Pipe, a young man becomes obsessed with a forgotten Chilean painter. By the author of Curfew.

Taratuta and Still Life With Pipe: Two Novellas

Genre Fiction

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

These striking novellas are the witty crystallizations of José Donoso's concerns over a lifetime of writing. In them he poses many of the questions raised by his fellow Latin American writers, Fuentes, García Marquez, and Vargas Llosa: What is truth? How does one use history in fiction? How does an artist create? 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. Donoso is the author of the classic novel The Obscene Bird of Night.

Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe: Two Novellas (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Contemporary

W.W.Norton&Company

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. (Verba Mundi)

The Obscene Bird of Night.

Random House, Inc.

When the adults of the Ventura family go off on a picnic, the games of the children turn real and develop into a brutal power struggle

A House in the Country

World Literature

KNOPF

When the adults of the Ventura family go off on a picnic, the games of the children turn real and develop into a brutal power struggle

A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY

Vintage

New Edition In this book, José Donoso unveils the false appearances, sordidness, violence and misery that give life to a sub world. The story takes place in a brothel owned by “la Japonesita” (the little Japanese girl) and revolves around the character of Manuela, an ambiguous yet brilliant character, a melting pot of passions who serves to reveal a dual morality and to question masculinity and its values. Description in Spanish: Un mundo que es el infierno, donde se ponen al descubierto las falsas apariencias, la sordidez, la violencia y la miseria que lo agobia. Todo sucede alrededor del burdel de la Japonesita. Y de la Manuela, ese ambiguo y genial personaje, crisol de las pasiones y revelador de una falsa moral; cuestionador de la masculinidad y sus valores.

El Lugar Sin Limites / Hell Has No Limits (Spanish and English Edition)

Vintage Books

A house in the country: A novel

Allen Lane.

A Chilean writer and his wife escape to Madrid, where they try to recapture their creativity and renew their lives on a vacation, but find their peace shattered by their son's antics and severe writer's block. By the author of A House in the Country.

The Garden Next Door

Grove Pr

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