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...OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT by JOSÉ DONOSO 438 pages. Knopf...
...Donoso has a lethally accurate ear for the cadences of Chilean people: aging, pious servants, provincials transplanted in the capital, the crumbling aristocracy. The elusive Iné is a perfect portrait of a working-class Santiago teenager. Along with legends and local lore, there is a great deal of fashionable literary rhetoric that unfortunately tends to make the author's truly bizarre creations more commonplace. When the didact in Donoso pushes the storyteller aside, the book comes perilously close to pomposity...
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...
...President Grau knew that he had public opinion behind him, and the tacit support of the U.S. Last week, when disturbances continued, Grau went to one source of the trouble. He fired Havana Police Official Donoso, jailed numerous policemen who had been suspected of brutality and killings during the Batista regime. At the same time. Grau warned the troublemakers to settle their differences in court. Eduardo Chibas, Government leader in the Senate, who has a flair for the dramatic, announced: "The President has taken personal command of the maintenance of order in Cuba...