El Jardin De Al Lado - Softcover

Donoso

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8432203874 ISBN 13: 9788432203879

Publisher: Editorial Seix Barral, S.A., 1981

Synopsis

264pp , Josep Navas Design Cover a work of René Magritte, ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: José Donoso Yáñez ( Santiago , October 5, 1924 - ibid , December 7, 1996 ) was a writer , teacher and journalist who was part of Chile he called Latin American boom years of 1960 and 1970. he received the National Prize for Literature in 1990.Hijo doctor José Donoso Donoso and Alicia Yanez , niece of journalist Eliodoro Yáñez , founder of the newspaper La Nación . He studied at The Grange School, where he was a teammate of Luis Alberto Heiremans , then at the University of Chile and later , thanks to a scholarship , he went to study English at Princeton University , experience after which he published his first two stories English: The blue woman and The poisoned pastries ( between 1950 and 1951 ) . Coming from a wealthy family during his youth he worked as a laborer and nevertheless office , long before developing his writing and teaching. In 1957 , while living with a family of fishermen in Isla Negra , he published his first novel , Coronation , which gave a masterly description of Santiago's upper classes and their decay. Six years later published first in the United States Alfred A. Knopf.1 In 1961 he married Mary Esther Serrano Bolivia , known as María Pilar Donoso ( 1926-1997 ) .. Later he moved to Spain , where lived between 1967 and 1981. There, published the Obscene Bird of Night (1970 ) , considered one of his best novels and more encouragement and literary ambition . The literary critic Harold Bloom considered one of the essential works of the canon of Western literature XX.3 century In 1972 he published the essay personal history of boom and in 1973 the narratives Three bourgeois novels . Although he had left the country before 1973 , following the coup Pinochet ( 1973 ) , it was considered exile in Spain . In 1978 he published Cottage, novel has been read as a key criticism of metaphor -in the Chilean dictatorship, which won the Critics Award in 1979. His erotic novel The mys

About this edition

• Publisher: Editorial Seix Barral, S.A.
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 8432203874
• ISBN 13: 9788432203879
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264