Word: donoso
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CORONATION by José Donoso. 262 pages. Knopf...
...multitude of potential horrors," brings him up short against a fact he cannot face, finally drives him insane too. In short, before she kicks off herself, Elisa gives what is left of her country's crumbling upper crust a well-placed foot in its foibles. Though Novelist Donoso, a Princeton-educated Chilean, attends the aristocracy's wake with almost gruesome glee, he seems a trifle wistful when the senile señora stops babbling and gives up the ghost. He should. She has, after all, put plenty of spunk into an old story...