José Donoso

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October 05, 1924 in Santiago do Chile, Chile

died

December 07, 1996

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José Donoso Yáñez was a Chilean writer. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent some years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States (Iowa) and Spain. After 1973, he claimed his exile was a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Donoso is the author of a number of remarkable stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American literary boom and the foundation of the literary movement knows as Magical Realism. His best known works include the novels Coronación, El lugar sin límites (The Place Without Limits) and El obsceno pájaro de la noche (The Obscene Bird of Night). His works deal with a number of themes, including sexuality and psychology, and are often darkly humorous. He is a...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 918 ratings · 97 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso, Leonard S. Marcus (Translator), Hardie St. Martin (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 1970 — 14 editions	My rating:
	El lugar sin límites 3.78 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1965 — 10 editions	My rating:
	A House in the Country 4.22 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1984 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Coronación 3.72 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1957 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Garden Next Door: A Novel by José Donoso, Hardie St. Martin (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	My rating:
	La misteriosa desaparición de la marquesita de Loria 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Este Domingo 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Donde Van a Morir Los Elefantes 3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe: Two Novellas by José Donoso, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Historia Personal del <<Boom>> 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“I once asked the servants why none of them had blue eyes like my aunts. They replied that only the ladies could afford to buy the blue glass cups in which they kept their eyes at night to make them more blue and beautiful, and furthermore, if we went on asking silly questions, the rats that steal the faces of inquisitive children in order to wear them as masks would come to take us to live in the twilit world between the ceiling and the roof where no one ever dared to go.”
― José Donoso

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“No estoy enamorado de ti. Ni siquiera despiertas en mí una de esas nostalgias aberrantes que los hombres de mi edad sienten con la proximidad de una vida joven: eres un ser inferior, Iris Mateluna, un trozo de existencia primaria que rodea a un útero reproductor tan central a tu persona que todo el resto de tu ser es cáscara superflua.”
― José Donoso, Obscene Bird of Night

tags: juventud , love , machismo , senilidad , sex

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