Author: Donoso, Jose.
Publisher: Debolsillo
Pages:680
A journey through the labyrinths of identity, deterioration, decay, and nonexistence. This is the pinnacle of Jose Donoso’s novels. The voice that narrates The Obscene Bird of Night flows tirelessly from the lips of the Mute, as in a journey from being to nothingness, creating a world destined —by the inherent curse of existence— to deterioration, loss, or a perplexity of any possible identity. The old women that live in the House of the Incarnation of La Chimba and the monsters of La Rinconada illustrate every nuance of despair as well as every one of the smallest daily pleasures; adding to the blind instinct of life an everlasting fear in the face of darkness, of the unnamable, and of that which no longer has a shape.