Notebook 3, 1956-06-17 - 1956-09-20

Item — Box: 6

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Scope and Contents

198 pages holograph. Notes and drafts for the first half of Coronacion. A draft of "El Hombrecito," dated 16 September. A draft of an article titled "Recuerdos de Toynbee," dated 17 September (accompanying note indicates the article was published in El Mercurio, 7 October 1956). Draft of an article titled "Dos Visitas a Juan Ramon Jimenez," dated 20 September.

Dates

Creation: 1956-06-17 - 1956-09-20

Creator

From the Collection: Donoso, Jose (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 7.50 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

189 numbered leaves plus 8 unnumbered leaves toward the end of the notebook. June 17, 1956 (Santiago); September 20, 1956 (Santiago). From leaves 31 to 39 the pages written in blue ink record JD's comments, notes and thoughts regarding the work in progress, while the pages written in pencil are drafts of Coronación. Comments on leaf 66 continue in leaf 76; on leaf 100 continues in 110 and 119

Index Card: Toda la primera mitad de CORONACION. Escrita, básicamente en mi cuarto en Bellavista. Hermana Díaz Arrieta tomó el cuarto contiguo. Gran amistad con Hernán Díaz. Largas temporadas juntos en la Rinconada de San Fernando, fundo de Dolores Echeverría Carvallo, ahora expropiado por el Gobierno de Frei, época de gran movilidad y libertad. Trabajo en la Universidad Católica y en Kent School.

Content: Notes, ideas, several drafts for Coronación; Ideas for two short stories; drafts of two newspaper articles. Works In Progress: Coronación :1-95; 97-unnumbered page towards the end of the notebook (Characters: René, Mario, Estela, Andrés Abalos, Misiá Elisita, Dora, Moisés, Tenda, Carlos, Rosario, Carlos Gros, Adrianita (mujer de Carlos Gros), anticuario, Lourdes, Felipe Andoegui, Tenchita, Lorenzo, Vicente Castillo, Donaldo, taxista, don Fornino, Zoila); Hors de Texte (ideas for a short story): 96; El hombrecito (short story): 164-176 (Characters: madre, padre, María Salinas, Luz Vergara, hermano menor, Rosa, Cucho, Ambrosio, Juan, Juan Vizacarra, Teresa Barriga, empleada); Recuerdos de Toynbee (a JD note indicates this text was published in the Sunday literary supplement of the Chilean Newspaper “El Mercurio,” October 7, 1956): 177-183; “Dos visitas a Juan Ramón Jiménez” (newspaper article): 184-188; Idea for a possible novel “El día”: 188-[190]; Future plan.

Miscellaneous: List of books (on unnumbered page towards the end of the notebook); List of last names divided into different categories (on unnumbered page towards the end of his notebook); Drawings on reverse side of page 178; List of possible future newspaper articles: 183 References: Carmen Orrego Montes (1925); Julieta (character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet) 66; Eva (Adam's wife) 66. Last page: Mark Twain (1835-1910); Jane Austen (1775-1817); Jane Eyre (novel by Charlotte Brontë, 1847); Irving Stone (1903-1989); Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), and his The Master of Ballantrae (1889); John Dos Passos (1896-1970) and his Adventures of a young man (1939); Sloan Wilson (1920-2003) an his The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955); Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) and her The Death of the Heart (1936); Stephen Crane (1871-1900) and his The Red Badge of Courage (1895).