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El Jardín De al Lado / the Garden Next Door
[Paperback - 2022]
josé donoso
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Debolsillo | ISBN: 9788466359269 | Pages: 272
Shipping Weight: .21 | Dimensions: 4.96 x .55 x 7.47 inches

Description

Una novela única en clave autoficcional sobre los egos revueltos del boom de la literatura latinoamericana.

Publicada en 1981, cuando José Donoso iniciaba su regreso a Chile, El jardín de al lado es una novela sobre el fracaso, aunque también  sobre la salvación. Julio Méndez, novelista chileno ya en la  cincuentena, exiliado en España y obsesionado por un éxito que no llega,  se debate con su ansiedad y sus intuiciones sobre la propia mediocridad,  al tiempo que se ve atormentado por las figuras de una todopoderosa  agente literaria y del máximo escritor de su tiempo. Desgarrada y tragicómica, cotidiana y patética, la novela explora los laberintos de  la marginalidad interior, así como el destierro, las miserias físicas y las ambigüedades del deseo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife Gloria are beset by worries, constantly bickering about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest trade in Marrakesh).

When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both — in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocrat who inhabits it. But Julio's life and career unravel in Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. With The Garden Next Door, Jose Donoso has rendered a carefully crafted and bitterly comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.

About the Author

José Donoso nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1924. Estudió en la Universidad de Chile y luego en Princenton, Estados Unidos. Entre 1967 y 1981 vivió en España, donde escribió algunas de sus novelas más importantes y se consolidó como una figura central del boom latinoamericano. Entre otras distinciones, obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura en Chile, el Premio de la Crítica en España, el Premio Mondello en Italia y el Premio Roger Caillois en Francia.

En 1995 fue condecorado con la Gran Cruz del Mérito Civil, otorgada por el Consejo de Ministros de España. Tras su regreso a Chile en 1981, dirigió por varios años un taller literario que jugó un rol fundamental en la gestación de la «nueva narrativa chilena». José Donoso murió en Santiago de Chile, en diciembre de 1996.

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