This Sunday (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: José Donoso
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Plot: Critical realism
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s
- Setting: Santiago, Chile
- Principal Characters: Josefina Rosas de Vives (Chepa), Alvaro Vives, Maya, Violeta
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Class conflict, Prisoners, Sex or sexuality, Servants, Chile or Chileans
- Locales: Santiago, Chile, Chile
The Novel
The plot of This Sunday is divided into five parts, presented through two different narrative voices. The first narrator, one of the grandchildren of Chepa, remembers, many years later, the weekends spent as a child at the house of his grandparents. His narrative includes the parts entitled “In the Fishbowl,” “Legitimate Games,” and “Sunday Night.” The second voice is that of a third-person narrator who presents certain aspects of the life of Alvaro and Chepa unknown to the grandchild, and who relates the chapters entitled “Part One” and “Part...
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