Most of Donoso's short stories were written early in his career, but he continued to publish novellas in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. His first published works were two stories written in English while he was a student at Princeton, "The Poisoned Pastries" and "The Blue Woman," which appeared in a literary magazine that he helped establish there. It was not until 1954, when he was nearly thirty, that he wrote his first story in Spanish. A collection of stories, Veraneo y otros cuentos, was published the following year at his own expense and with the help of family and friends. These early tales are generally urban in flavor and touch on themes that figure prominently in his more mature work. The title piece, "Veraneo," for example, told from the point of view of a pair of children, depicts the world of the Chilean bourgeoisie and elaborates on the interplay between masters and servants. A second collection, El charlestón ( Charleston and Other Stories), written while he was in Buenos Aires, appeared in 1960. Donoso's interest in the questions of psycho-social identity, marginality, social caste, and the stifling codes of contemporary Chilean society inform these stories, typified by the widely anthologized "Paseo," a narrative about an aged, bourgeois spinster who abandons decorum when she meets a stray dog on the way home from church. Donoso's two volumes of stories plus "Santelices" and his earlier "China" were collected and published as Los mejores cuentos de Donoso in 1966, which was reprinted in 1971 simply as Cuentos. A trilogy of novellas, Tres novelitas burguesas (1973; Sacred Families: Three Novellas), his first published fiction after El obsceno pájaro de la noche, treats questions of self-identity in its exploration of fragmented subjectivity, but without the hallucinatory quality that infused the novel. The four novellas in Cuatro para Delfina (1982), Donoso's first fiction written after his return to Chile, are marked in style and theme by the author's reencounter with his native country and the Chilean vernacular. The pair of novellas in Taratuta/Naturaleza muerta con cachimba (1990; Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe), like Donoso's other short fiction, are structured more conventionally than many of the novels, but they are nonetheless complex, cerebral pieces: both are "postmodern" in tone and deal with the power of artistic creation to absorb and transform mundane existence.
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The short stories of José Donoso have not received the sustained critical attention that has been accorded his novelistic production. Chronologically, the great majority of them fall in the period immediately preceding the so-called "Boom," if we acquiesce to the received date of 1961 as the unofficial beginning of the surge in modern Latin American letters.1 Donoso's first collection of short stories, Veraneo y otros cuentos, was published in 1955. El charlestón, the Chilean writer's other collection of short fiction appeared in print in 1960.2 This temporal marginality vis-à -vis the "Boom" is symbolic of the way Donoso's short stories are perceived in the context of his literary career. Contrary, for instance, to the case of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez the bulk of whose earlier literary production appears to have been recovered and reappraised after the immense success of Cien años de soledad, Donoso's stories have benefited little from the universal acclaim received by his El obsceno pájaro de la noche, published in 1970 to unanimous critical praise. The reason may lie in the avowed social realism that critics have noted in the stories, to which they oppose the self-referential, multilayered writing of El obsceno pájaro de la noche. Some version of this distinction appears to underlie the following comment taken from the introduction by Ana MarÃa Moix to Donoso's collected stories, published in 1971: "Pasados veinticuatro años y juzgando con el distanciamiento que permite el paso del tiempo, puede comprobar el lector que José Donoso no se escapó de pagar su tributo a la moda del realismo social de los años cincuenta."3 Given its retrospective nature, what the comment quoted above appears to contrast implicitly are two different textual practices: the first, referential and mimetic; the second, the producer of the open, polysemous textual universe of El obsceno pájaro de la noche, intent on affirming the rule and play of the signifier.4 This discrepancy, and the perplexity it elicits in critical circles, are aptly summarized by John Caviglia: "Those who have written on El obsceno pájaro do seem near consensus on two points: first, that the work is unique, unprecedented, and somehow, like a monster, sui generis; and second, that its aberrations are doubly puzzling . . ., given the 'traditional' nature of José Donoso's earlier fiction."5
Donoso's short stories mark his earliest incursions into the literary realm. His first story in Spanish, "'China,'" was published in 1954 by Zig-Zag in Enrique Lafourcade's AntologÃa del nuevo cuento chileno (Anthology of the New Chilean Short Story). His first volume of stories, Veraneo y otros cuentos (Summer Vacation and Other Stories), appeared in 1955 and included "Veraneo" ("Summertime"), "Tocayos" (Namesakes), "El güero" ("The 'Güero'"), "Una señora" ("A Lady"), "Fiesta en grande" (A Grand Party), "Dos cartas" (Two Letters), and "Dinamarquero" ("The Dane's Place"). This book won him the Premio Municipal in 1956. His second volume. El Charlestón ( The Charleston), included "El charlestón" ("Charleston"), "La puerta cerrada" ("The Closed Door"), "Ana MarÃa" ("Ana Maria"), "Paseo" ("The Walk"), and "El hombrecito" (The Handyman), most of which had been published previously in literary magazines. These two volumes of stories plus "Santelices" and his earlier "'China'" were collected in 1965 and published as Los mejores cuentos de Donoso (Donoso's Best Short Stories). That collection was reprinted in 1971 and 1985 and entitled simply Cuentos (Stories). An English translation, Charleston and Other Stories, includes nine narratives from that group.
Su primer relato en español se titula China. En 1955 publica un volumen de relatos Veraneo y otros cuentos. Viaja de nuevo para los Estados Unidos con motivo del lanzamiento de la primera edición estadounidense de Coronación, en 1957. Durante su primer viaje a México escribe El lugar sin lÃmites en 1965, y durante el segundo su tercera novela, Este domingo. En 1967 José Donoso se traslada a Europa. Vivió unos meses en Portugal y después se instaló en España: primero Madrid, después Mallorca, Barcelona, Sitges, Santander, Calaciete. En 1974 escribe Casa de campo, una fábula donde los personajes principales son treinta y cinco niños, sus padres, sus sirvientes y las gentes del lugar. En su casa en un pueblo del bajo Aragón, escribe Tres novelitas burguesas e Historia personal del boom. Varios años antes habÃa publicado El obsceno pájaro de la noche, en España, quizá su obra más significativa. En 1980 escribe su primera novela erótica, La marquesita de Loria y al año siguiente El jardÃn de al lado. En 1982 publica cuatro novelas cortas incluidas en el libro titulado Cuatro para Delfina, probablemente las muestras más acabadas del género en toda la obra de Donoso, más allá de su importante diferencia de tonos y matices, que fluctúan desde lo festivo o grotesco hasta lo más desazonador y lúgubre. Tras casi un lustro de silencio, publica La desesperanza, la tragedia polÃtica chilena encarnada en un personaje conflictivo: Mañungo Vera, un cantautor social, que regresa de ParÃs a Santiago el dÃa de la muerte de Matilde Neruda.
Veraneo y otros cuentos es el primer libro del escritor, éste es publicado en 1955, y para el año siguiente se le concede el Premio Municipal de Santiago por el mismo. En 1957 Donoso vivÃa junto a una familia de pescadores en la localidad chilena de Isla Negra, es aquà donde publica su primer novela donde se dedica a opinar y describir a las clases altas sociales de la capital y la decadencia que éstas han venido presentando. Llevó por nombre Coronación; fue publicada ocho años más tarde es publicada por primera vez en Estados Unidos, por el editor Alfred A. Knopf; y en Inglaterra por The Bodley Head.
Es miembro de la Academia Chilena de la Lengua. Su primer libro se intituló Veraneo y otros cuentos (1955); a éste le siguió su primera novela: Coronación que vio la luz en 1957. Para la publicación de ambos libros, el autor se vio en la necesidad de vender ejemplares en las calles, empresa apoyada por un grupo de amigos. Coronación tuvo gran éxito; éste fue atribuido al hecho de haber retratado con extraordinaria fidelidad y destreza la decadencia de la clase alta chilena. No obstante para Donoso representó el primer paso de una novelÃstica que buscaba trascender al nivel realista. 2ff7e9595c