Notebook 27

Item — Box: 9

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

11 July-14 December, no year specified.

Dates

Creation: 1951-1967

Creator

From the Collection: Donoso, Jose (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 7.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

92 pages numbered by JD plus 26 unused unnumbered pages. July 11 (year unspecified by JD) Los Dominicos, Santiago. December 14 (year unspecified by JD) Los Dominicos, Santiago.

Index card: none.

Content: Notes, drafts, sketches, critic evaluation of “El ultimo Azcoitia” (later “El obsceno pajaro de la noche”) Ideas for a new novel “Dos mundos”.

Works in progress: "El ultimo Azcoitia”: 1 ; idea for a new novel “Dos mundos”: 43.

Characters: Jeronimo, Matilde, Bohemia, Humberto, Ines, Peta, vagabundos, Geisha, Manuela.

Sketches:1.1 3-11, 19, 21-25, 27-28, 31-32, 34-35, 66, 72-75, 77-78, 81-85.

Thoughts and reflections: 1.1 1-3, 8, 10-14, 18-19, 20-21, 25-27, 30, 32-35, 49-55, 62-66, 67-72, 75-77, 78-81, 85-88, 89-91.

Reference: Julio Cortazar, 64.

Miscellaneous: 44-45 Feelings and reflections towards his present life and the novel as a narrative genre; 91-91 Feelings and reflections on the novel, and his work being translated.