Descripción:
The book is not only the object I hold in my hand as I read, it is the manuscript which appears in one scene from the novel under ‘Donoso’s’ arm (‘la versión definitiva de Casa de campo finalmente bajo el brazo- (C. 395) ), a mise en abyme of the novel which reminds us of the process of writing.

The book is a bridge, a little ‘tablón’ perched over the void, the empty space of writing, the rectangular shape and denseness of pages nevertheless eluding solidity and certitude, experiences and realities disguised and deferred. The physical contours of the book are reassuringly familiar but its words do not necessarily reassure. For Donoso, ‘ideologies and cosmogonies are alien’: his novel rejects fixed ideologies and exalts the act of authoring fictions. - From Introduction


CONTENTS:

Introduction......1

I. Authorizing voice and time......19

II. Narrative strategies: re-presenting (resisting) characters and readers......56

III. Interior duplication/distortion......80

Conclusion......104

List of works cited and consulted......108