Notebook 8, 1957-07-25 - 1957-10-24

Item — Box: 6

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Scope and Contents

300 pages holograph. Notes, plot outline and drafts of some dialogue for El Viaje de los Sandoval (a play). Notes and drafts for a projected novel, Paula Mancheno. Numerous drafts of the beginning of the short story "La Casa." Notes and plot outline for El Viaje de los Aguine (a play). Miscellaneous jottings.

Dates

Creation: 1957-07-25 - 1957-10-24

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

245 numbered leaves plus 85 unnumbered pages, 2 at the beginning and 83 at the end. July 25, 1957 (El Canelo); October 24, 1957 (Santiago). Last date in this notebook is May 9; nevertheless JD drew a red interrogation mark around it for the introductory card he made for this notebook and estimated that the last date was October 24.

Index card: I have no job, no money, no publishers for CORONACION (turned down by Alejandro Maguet and José Manuel Vegara in Ed. Del Pacífico). So I go with Pepe Zañartu, and María Elena Gertner, to live in El Canelo, in the same little house I lived before. I wrote a list of hard things here, none of which came to anything. I go back to Santiago, still no job. But Nascimiento accepted my novel and I begun to sell it before publication. Projects for Paula Mancheño.

Content: Continues work on project based in his childhood and family story. Ideas, sketches and drafts for three different plays. Ideas, drafts for a book about the novel and the process of writing Coronación.

Works In Progress: “Niñez en la calle Ejército”: 1-48; “El viaje de los Aguirre” later “El viaje de los Sandoval” (play): 49-172 (Characters: Alirio Aguirre (later Carlos Alberto Sandoval) Marta, hija de Alirio, Francisca, Manuel, Claudio, nieto de Sandoval y su señora, Renato, Paco Ureta, Antonia y María Patricia; Sara, Jeremías); “La historia de Magdalena Barros” (later Paula Mancheño) (novel): 189-230 (Characters: Magadalena, nieto, Gastón Canziani, Angel, Nicolás Varas Garcés, Alicia); “Tres encuentros”(play): 236-237; “Conferencia de Marta Brunet. Historia de una novela”: unnumbered pages, dated “9 de Mayo” (towards the end of the notebook).

Work Plans: “El viaje de los Aguirre”: 68, 71, 75-76, 79, 82, 227, 236-237, unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook “9 de Mayo”; unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook.

Secondary Projects:Ideas for a future study on Henry James’s work focused on the characters: 182-185. List of Chilean Novels on which he would like to write a set of essays: 186-188; 230-235. A dialogue between two characters: 243-245.

Miscellaneous: Stage design for a play: 70; Thoughts and reflections on his present life: 173-181; Thoughts and reflections on Martín Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana: 230-235; Thoughts and reflections on “Casa Grande” by Orrego Luco: 238-242; Thoughts and reflections on the relationship between the writer and his/her production, characters et al: unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook; Ideas, notes and drafts on the writing process of Coronación: unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook.

References: Tarzan 9; Jules Verne (1828-1905) 9 ; El Peneca (1908-1960) 9; Pinocchio (by Carlo Collodi, 1883) 9; Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) 61; Françoise Sagan (1935-2004) 61, 104; Juliette Gréco (1927) 104; Al filo de la navaja (novel by Somerset Maugham,1944) 121; Henry James (1843-1916) 182, 184-185, unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook; The Wings of the Dove (novel by Henry James, 1902) 183, 185; The Ambassadors (novel by Henry James, 1903) 183; Merton, Milly, Lowder, Densher, Kate (characters in The Wings of the Dove) 183; Chad, Lambert Strether (characters in The Ambassadors) 184-185; The Portrait of a Lady (novel by Henry James, 1880-1881) 184; Isabel Archer (characters in The Portrait of a Lady, 1881) 184-185; Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) 186; Martín Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) 186-188, 230, 232-235, 241; Casa Grande (1908) by Luis Orrego Luco (1866-1948) 186-187, 238, 241-242; Pasión y muerte del Cura Deusto (1924 ) by Augusto D'Halmar (1882-1950) 186; El hermano asno (1922) by Eduardo Barrios (1884-1963) 186; Montaña Adentro (1923) by Marta Brunet (1897-1967) 186, “9 de Mayo”; Valparaíso, la ciudad del viento (1931) by Joaquín Edwards Bello (1887-1968); La última niebla (1935) by María Luisa Bombal (1910-1980) 186; Hijo de Ladrón (1951) by Manuel Rojas (1896-1973) 186, 235; Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) 187, 233; Eliodoro Yañez (1860-1933) 201; Hans Arp (1886-1966) 216; Fernand Léger (1881-1955) 216; André Lhote (1885-1962); Nemesio Antúnez (1918-1993) 218; Vicki Baum (1888-1960) 218; Carmen Silva (1924) 218; Enrique Zañartu (1921) 218; Stendhal (1783-1842) 230, 233, “9 de Mayo”; Jean Racine (1639-1699) 231; Hernán Díaz Arrieta (1891-1984) 239; Agustín Encina (character in Martin Rivas) 241. References in unnumbered pages: Jane Austen (1775-1817); James Gould Cozzens (1903-1978); William Cuthbert; Faulkner (1897-1962); Albert Camus (1913-1960); Isak Dinesen (1885-1962); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (by Lewis Carroll, 1865); Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910); Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) ; Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966); Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941); Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881); Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935); Sigismund Freud (1856-1939); Carl Jung (1875-1961); Henry Graham Greene (1904-1991); et al.