CRITICISM

Baker, Robert. “José Donoso's El obsceno pájaro de la noche: Thoughts on ‘Schizophrenic’ Form.” Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 26, no. 1 (January 1992): 37-60.

Examines what El obsceno pájaro de la noche suggest about “the postmodern historical moment.”

Feal, Rosemary Geisdorfer. “Veiled Portraits: Donoso's Interartistic Dialogue in El jardín de al lado. MLN 103, no. 2 (March 1988): 398-418.

Discusses the connection between the masked narrator in El jardín de al lado, and the novel's “dialogue” between the art forms of literature and painting.

Friedman, Mary Lusky. “The Chilean Exile's Return: Donoso versus García Márquez.” The Americas Review: A Review of Hispanic Literature and Art of the USA 18, nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1990): 211-17.

Explores the differences in Donoso's and Márquez's respective 1986 publications documenting the return of exiles to Chile after the end of the Pinochet government.

———. “The Artistry of La desesperanza by José Donoso.” Hispania 78, no. 1 (March 1995): 13-24.

Examines the narrative strategies which underlie La desesperanza, a novel in which Donoso portrays the bleakness of the Pinochet era.

Kogan, Marcela. “Stormy Adventures of the Spirit.” Americas 39, no. 6 (November-December 1987): 8-13.

Interview in which Donoso reflects on his life, career, and experiences as a member of the Latin American Boom generation.

Mandri, Flora González. “The Androgynous Narrator in El jardín de al lado.” In José Donoso's House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place, pp. 109-22. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.

Analyzes Donoso's technique of using apparently distinct male and female voices in El jardín de al lado that, in the end, are actually the voice of a single female narrator.

Pollard, Scott. “Artists, Aesthetics, and Family Politics in Donoso's El obsceno pájaro de la noche and James's The Golden Bowl.” Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association 23, (May 1999): 40-62.

Discusses Donoso's El obsceno pájaro de la noche in terms of the premodern literary mode of Henry James's The Golden Bowl.

Additional coverage of Donoso's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 3; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 81-84, 155; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 32, 73; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 4, 8, 11, 32, 99; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 113; DISCovering Authors Modules: Multicultural Authors; Hispanic Literature Criticism, Ed. 1; Hispanic Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Latin American Writers; Latin American Writers Supplement, Ed. 1; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 34; and World Literature and Its Times, Vol. 1.