If nothing else, I will definitely have expanded my vocabulary by the time I’m done, but I really enjoy his style of writing and am genuinely interested in the story.
Only three chapters into the book so far, my first impression is that this is going to be a deep and complicated story with a lot of dark and vivid imagery, and that I’m going to love it. He wrote a TON of stuff and won a bunch of awards but the only other work I’ve read by him is a short story called El Hombrecito. He wrote from 1955 until his death in 1997, including the years he lived in exile in Spain during Pinochet’s golpe del estado (1973-1981) where he published El obsceno pajaro de la noche. José Donoso is one of the most important Chilean fiction writers, if not the most important, and was the founder of the Generación del 50 in Chile. However, with the help of the internet and Spanish dictionary app on my iPod, I’m really enjoying it so far and am determined to make it through at least once before my presentation at the end of November. I chose it from a long list of books mostly for the challenge – its just a few short of 600 pages and wouldn’t exactly be the easiest read even in English. He is also considered an innovative stylist.El obsceno pajaro de la noche (The Obscene Bird of the Night) by José Donoso is the first full-length book in Spanish I’ve tackled in a while, and I’m reading it for my Contemporary Chilean Literature class.
His works deal with a number of themes, including sexuality and psychology, and are often darkly humorous.
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). After 1973, he claimed his exile was a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.ĭonoso 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. 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.
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