Notebook 7, 1957-04-22 - 1957-06-25

Item — Box: 6

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

91 pages holograph. Notes for the revision of Coronacion. Notes for a short story titled "Las Invitaciones." Preliminary notes for an untitled play. Miscellaneous jottings.

Dates

Creation: 1957-04-22 - 1957-06-25

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

74 numbered leaves plus 19 unnumbered pages, 2 at the beginning and 17 at the end. April 22, 1957 (Isla Negra); June 27, 1957 (Guardia Vieja).

Index Card: Fiddling about with many things, with nothing. At the end I begin the revision of CORONACION. I was working in the house of Nemesio Antunez and Ines Figueroa. At this point, when I return to Santiago, I’m out of a job, since both jobs I had I gave up to be able to write CORONACION..

Content: Ideas, comments, some drafts for texts he would like to write once Coronación is finished. Changes he needs to make and literary aspects he needs to improve.

Works In Progress: Ideas for a nouvelle titled “Las invitaciones”: 1-5 (Characters: Marcela, Nano, Memo); Ideas for a text based on his old house in Calle Ejército: 5; 12-18; 21-24; 64; Ideas for the next novel: 6-11; Crónica Familiar: 68-[75]; Coronación: unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook about the changes he needs to make and literary aspects he needs to improve.

Work Plans: Crónica Familiar: 66, 67, 68, 74 and in an unnumbered page towards the end of the notebook

Miscellaneous: Drawing in blue ink of the face of a woman: front page; Answer to the question: por que escribo recuerdos de infancia: 19-24; Plans writing a play as soon as he finishes Coronación: 27-64; 66-67; Drafts of a letter addressed to Senor Boggiano introducing himself in order to be hired: unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook.

References: Alfonso Bulnes (1799-1866) 5; José Santos González Vera (1897-1970) 5; Julio Garrido (?-?) 5; South Wind (novel by George Norman Douglas, 1917) 6; Matías Errázuriz (?-?) 8; Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) 8; Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) 9; Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) 9; Carmen Silva (1924) 9; Inés Figueroa (?-?) 10; Gabriel Miró (1879-1930) 12; El humo dormido (poetic prose by Gabriel Miró, 1919) 12; Valentin Louis Georges Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 23; Luis Alberto Heiremans (1928-1964) 57, 63; John Galsworthy (1867-1933) 69; The Forsyte Saga (series of novels by John Galsworthy, 1906-1921) 69; Eliodoro Yáñez (1860-1932) 70-71; Hernán Díaz Arrieta (1891-1984) unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook; et al.