This article underscores the significance of José Donoso’s “Papers”, in the custody of Iowa University, in connection whith Julio Ortega’s ideas about them, as made known by the newpaper “La Tercera”, in Chile. In addition, a reading of homophobia as expression of a surreptitious eros, is made in th...

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Main Author: Miguel Ángel Náter
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Chile 2006-01-01
Series:Revista Chilena de Literatura
Online Access:https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/1484
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Summary:This article underscores the significance of José Donoso’s “Papers”, in the custody of Iowa University, in connection whith Julio Ortega’s ideas about them, as made known by the newpaper “La Tercera”, in Chile. In addition, a reading of homophobia as expression of a surreptitious eros, is made in the novels “El lugar sin límites” and in “El obsceno pájaro de la noche”. In contrast to the homoerotic discourse that Ortega detects in Donoso, the narrators in the two best known novels of the Chilean writer express a constant rejection of the marginal characters, or otherwise expose sodomy as a form which expresses the inferiority of the underling.
ISSN:0048-7651
0718-2295