![]() ![]() Publisher: David R Godine 1st Verba Mundi Ed edition (December 1, 1995) The Obscene Bird of Night (Verba Mundi) by Jose Donoso ![]() His works deal with a number of themes, including sexuality, the duplicity of identity, psychology, and a sense of dark humor.Īfter his death, his personal papers at the University of Iowa revealed his homosexuality a revelation that caused a certain controversy in Chile. 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). The term 'Boom' was coined in his 1972 essay Historia personal del "boom". ![]() He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death.ĭonoso is the author of a number of remarkable stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American literary boom. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States (Iowa) and mainly Spain. Elisa_rolle José Donoso Yáñez (October 5, 1924–December 7, 1996) was a Chilean writer. ![]()
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