Taratuta and Still Life With Pipe: Two Novellas - Hardcover

Donoso, Jose

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393034364 ISBN 13: 9780393034363

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1993

Synopsis

In Taratuta, the man meets a descendant of the Russian revolutionary whose biography he is penning, and in Still Life with Pipe, a young man becomes obsessed with a forgotten Chilean painter. By the author of Curfew.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

These striking novellas are the witty crystalizations of Jose Donoso's concerns over a lifetime of writing. In them he poses many of the questions raised by his fellow Latin American writers, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, and Vargas Llosa. Taratuta is a mystery story in which a writer tries to track a slippery Russian revolutionary in history and in life. Still Life with Pipe shows the comeuppance of an ambitious man when he meets true art and can't escape its grasp.

About the Author:

José Donoso was a Chilean writer. While he lived most of his life in Chile, he also spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States (Iowa), and Spain. After 1973 he claimed his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0393034364
• ISBN 13: 9780393034363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158