Curfew
by José Donoso
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Jose Donoso has created a hauntingly beautiful novel of contemporary Chile and the human condition. Curfew takes place during a twenty-four-hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away and Chile's various factions rally to turn the event to their advantage. For Pinochet's junta it represents a chance to assert political authority; for the intellectuals who had basked in Neruda's light, it is an opportunity to grab the spoils of the show more estate. show lessTags
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Novels set over the course of a single day (or less)
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71+ Works 2,849 Members
Donoso obsessive subject is the decay of the Chilean bourgeoisie, but he vigorously rejects anything reminiscent of traditional realism or the portrayal of regional customs. In This Sunday (1966), he focuses on a family's activities on Sundays in order to view the boredom, passions, and misery of Chilean bourgeois society and its servants. The show more Obscene Bird of Night (1970) deals with the decline of feudal society through the story of a landholding family in a kaleidoscopic vision of decay and outrageous behavior. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Curfew
- Original title
- La desesperanza
- Original publication date
- 1986
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- Members
- 103
- Popularity
- 314,058
- Reviews
- 1
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- (3.00)
- Languages
- 5 — English, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 2
