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unusual facts about José Donoso


Claudio Coello

with José Donoso, under whom he studied at Rome, was not less advantageous for him.


Imbunche

Jose Donoso's magical realist book The Obscene Bird of Night reinterprets imbunche folklore as a way to bind a male child in a sack to prohibit escape and bodily growth.


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El Cuerpo del Deseo

But Pedro Jose Donoso returns to Earth through transmigration: (the passing of a soul into another body after death), in the body of Salvador Cerinza (Mario Cimarro), a handsome (yet poor) family man.

Latin American literature

Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.