José Donoso | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 26 pages of analysis & critique of José Donoso.

José Donoso | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 26 pages of analysis & critique of José Donoso.
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SOURCE: "Masking History in Donoso's Taratuta," Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos, Vol. XVII, No. 1, Fall, 1992, pp. 47-62.

In the following excerpt, González explores the nature of what she finds to be the fictional and historical discourses that are juxtaposed in Donoso 's novella Taratuta.

In his recent novella Taratuta (1990), José Donoso, as narrator, begins by making us aware of the need to question received versions of history:

Como tantas cosas relacionadas con el legado Schmidt, este párrafo está lleno de datos que parecen contradecir los que aportaban otros tratadistas . . . Walter favorece la hipótesis de la mala salud del joven industrial, probablemente tísico como varios miembros de su familia. Otro cronista habla de suicidio. Aseguran, también, que la herencia de Nicolás Schmidt se dividió en tres partes. ¿Cuál es la verdad? (11)

As made explicit by this quotation, history purports to arrive at...

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This section contains 7,312 words
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