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José Donoso Information
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 José Donoso was a Chilean writer. He was born in Santiago, Chile in 1924, and died there in December 1996. Donoso lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent some years in self-chosen exile in Mexico, the United States (Iowa) and Spain. After...


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 The Independent - London
Obituary:Jose Donoso
12/14/1996: 1,244 words, approx. 4 pages "Without literature, I could not go on living." Jose Donoso, the great Chilean novelist, best known in the English-speaking world for his nightmarish evocations of gruesome yet appealing human monsters, El osceno pjaro de la noche (The Obscene Bird of Night, 1971), was a...
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Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Philip Swanson
12,005 words, approx. 40 pages
 In the following chapter from his book on Latin American literature after the “Boom,” Swanson presents a semiotic reading of La misteriosa desaparición de la marquesita de Loria, including commentary on the ideas of previous critics of the work.
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Critical Essay by Alfred J. MacAdam
10,110 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following chapter from his book on comparative literature, MacAdam compares and contrasts Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and Donoso's A House in the Country, finding in each work a break with literary tradition.
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Critical Essay by Pamela Bacarisse
10,077 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following essay, Bacarisse examines Donoso's narrative devices to discover the relation of the narrator to the author, as well as the dominant emotional state in El obsceno pájaro de la noche.


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