Word: donoso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙ A House in the Country, José Donoso ∙ Leaving the Land, Douglas Unger ∙ Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee ∙ Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙ The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer
...VERITABLE melee of artistic issues that gives Donoso's novel most of its Does a work of art point outwards by mirroring, or does it stand apart from the outside world by reflecting--or inventing--human qualities in their purest form? In brief explanations interspersed through the narrative. Donoso insists that his novel is artifice and that a book should not remind its audiences of its daily existence. But he clearly depicts the turmoil produced in Chile and other clearly South American countries by an export illustrates the conflict between a foreign investors' elite and an entrenched local elite descended...
...story itself matters some of the artistic issues Donoso discusses. The Ventures have achieved isolation in the country only through an effort of will enforced through false stories of cannibalism outside. They maintain contact with the outside through trade with foreigners. In fact, their fortune comes from this trade. In the same way, Donoso adamantly creates a distance from the outside world, although his novel is richer for its reaching out. He claims throughout that the book is not open-ended. But were it in fact closed, its source of vitality would disappear. Even in the story's framework. Donoso...
Critics, in a sniveling attempt to place Donoso in a genre, have often compared him to Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquees. Their similarities--in subject matter and setting, for example--stem only from the aspects of Spanish colonial heritage common to Chile and Colombia The mixing of several cultures gives these writer a wider range of plausible stories, as well as a greater sense of freedom to experiment with the unlikely. But unlike Marquez, Donoso derives much of his energy from the extreme self-consciousness of his art Each time Donoso turns from one event to another, he explains that...
...Spanish title of Donoso's novel, Casa de Campo,is also the name of a park just outside of Madrid Donoso clearly does not intend the park's name as the title's only significance like other things in the book, however, the title points out ward and suggests a similarity between the Ventures' escape from the capital city and excursions in Casa de Campo. It suggests that the Venturas never left the city even in their isolation. The title's anchor in Madrid conveys the paradox of Donoso's pretended vacuum and stands as a monument...