A House in the Country

Literature & Fiction

José Donoso

World Literature

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The five outstanding authors in this anthology have created remarkably distinctive worlds of their own, worlds that are well reflected in the stories included here. The stories representing each author might be said to function like a mobile: considered separately, they are unique and interesting pieces of art, while together they form a recognizable pattern and give an impression of the author's imaginative world. The anthology as a whole then becomes a collection of such literary mobiles, a vivid exhibition that testifies to the high level of brilliance achieved by contemporary Spanish-American fiction. CINCO MAESTROS is designed for use in the third semester of study and beyond. The stories in this anthology are made more readily accessible to students by the addition of notes and vocabulary.

Cinco maestros: Cuentos modernos de Hispanoamérica (Spanish Edition)

Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez

Jorge Luís Borges

Julio Contazar

Julio Rulfo

Contemporary

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Curfew (Picador Books)

Picador/Pan Books

The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Carlos Fuentes

OCTAVIO PAZ

JORGE AMADO

Julio Cortázar

GABRIELA MISTRAL

Pablo-neruda

Avon/Books

Sacred Families: Three Novellas by Donoso, Jose; tr. by Andree Conrad

Sacred Families: Three Novellas

Alfred.A. Knopf

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 oldest trade 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 — in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocrat who inhabits it. But Julio's life and career unravel in Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, 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. With The Garden Next Door, Jose Donoso has rendered a carefully crafted and bitterly comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.

The Garden Next Door: A Novel

Literary

GROVE PRESS

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 Mañungo Vera, a native son returning after a successful career as a European pop singer. In the zone between documentary-like realism and grotesque absurdity, José Donoso evokes the suffocating atmosphere of a country under dictatorship, and its quietly devastating effect on the actions of those who live there.

Curfew: A Novel

Wiedenfeld & Nicolson

casa de campo (Spanish Edition)

Plaza Janes

este domingo (Spanish Edition)

Este libro destaca por la capacidad y la calidad de la evocación.

Este domingo

Bruguera

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