This dissertation re-evaluates the place of José Donoso in the Latin American Boom as well as the consequences of this period in the writing process of his most renowned novel, The Obscene Bird of Night (1970). Its focal points are under-utilized archival material related to the novel's writing process, including Donoso's notebooks, typescripts and his personal correspondence. Spotlighting the transformation of specific episodes of the novel and the traces of the Boom through his notebooks, I argue that the published version of this work is in great part the result of Donoso's relationships with the writers of the Boom and the "nueva novela". The borderline position that Donoso occupies in the Boom (sometimes included, sometimes not) can best be explained by the late publication of this crucial novel, since Donoso's correspondence reveals that he was an important agent in the machinery behind the Boom.
Dissertation
José Donoso, el Boom y El obsceno pájaro de la noche
University of Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
Spring 2010
DOI: 10.17077/etd.3hi6vf7l
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Abstract
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- Title: Subtitle
- José Donoso, el Boom y El obsceno pájaro de la noche
- Creators
- Maria Laura Bocaz - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Brian Gollnick (Advisor)Daniel Balderston (Advisor)Luis Martin-Estudillo (Committee Member)Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez (Committee Member)Claire Fox (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Spanish
- Date degree season
- Spring 2010
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.3hi6vf7l
- Number of pages
- 1, vii, 185 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2010 Maria Laura Bocaz
- Language
- Spanish
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185).
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9983777371202771
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