Notebook 10, 1957-12-14 - 1958-06-16

Item — Box: 6

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Scope and Contents

170 pages holograph. Outline of Paula Mancheno; a list of characters, and several drafts of the "Prologo." Preliminary notes on the play titled Los Leones y las Lilas. Preliminary notes and character sketches for a play titled El Exilado. Preliminary notes and character sketches for a projected novel titled Fin de Semana.

Dates

Creation: 1957-12-14 - 1958-06-16

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

170 numbered leaves. 14 diciembre (Santiago); 3 de Julio (Santiago). Most of the pages are written on both sides. Pages 159 to 170 are not bound to the notebook; the notebook is incomplete. Notes on red ink done later. The last recorded date is July 3, not June 16 as registered in JD's introductory note. There are two leaves numbered 113.

Index Card: 14 Diciembre 1957 a 16 Junio 1958. Época caótica y confusa. Mis amores con Marta Rivas de Gumicio a raíz del triunfo de CORONACION. Y con la Mary Orrego. FIN DE SEMANA, proyecto de novela, todavía interesante. Obra de teatro: PRIMERA LINEA DE FUEGO, sobre los refugiados españoles/

Content: Preliminary drafts, notes, comments and ideas for “Paula Mancheño”; Preliminary notes on the play titled “Los Leones y Las Lilas”; Preliminary notes, drafts, comments, ideas and character sketches for a play titled “El Exilado”; Preliminary notes, comments, ideas character sketches for a projected novel titled “Fin de Semana” Works In Progress: Paula Mancheño (novel): 3-38; 50; 166-170 (Characters: Paula Mancheño Varas, Victoria Mancheño Varas, Rafael Mancheño Varas , Alejandro Mancheño , Victor Manuel de Vergara, Sara Rivas de Vergara, Toribio, Eusebia, Nina, Miguel Sánchez, Tía Luz Mancheño, Tía Dominga Mancheño, Rosa, Tía Cecilia Mancheño,Tomás Vergara Rivas, Paulo, Victoria Sánchez Mancheño, Vicente Salas); “Los leones con las lilas” (Comedy): 38-47 (Characters: Pancho, Isabel); “El exiliado”(drama): 51- 125 (Characters: Ricardo Quiñones, Marisela Alonso de Quiñones, Soledad Lara de Quiñones, Carlucho Benavides, Domingo Edwards, Augusto Pearson, Amelia Quiñones Lara, Alonso Quiñones, Cristóbal Bermúdez, Ramón de la Puente, Ana Rivas); “Fin de semana”: 127-165 (Characters: Alcalde, Chita Ortúzar, italiano, La geisha, Doña Matilde, amante de Margarita, Don Ludo Parraguéz).

Work Plans: Paula Mancheño 25-26; 47 - 48; 61-62; 101-104; “El exiliado”: 1.3 113-114; “Fin de semana”: 136-140; 157, 164, 165. Secondary Projects: Ideas for an essay: 47-49; Ideas for an El Mercurio article: 124-125 References: Virginia Wolf (1882-1941) 10; Juan Orrego Salas (1919) 38; Nemesio Antúnez (1918-1993) 38; Patricio Bunster (1924 -2006) 38; Franz Kafka (1883-1924) 47; Thomas Mann (1875-1955) 47; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 48; Henry James (1843-1916) 49, 125; Herman Melville (1819-1891) 49; Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) 49; Doña Bárbara (novel by Rómulo Gallegos, 1929) 49; Don Segundo Sombra (novel by Ricardo Güiraldes, 1926) 49; Dom Casmurro (novel by Machado de Assis, 1899) 49; Martín Rivas (novel by Alberto Blest Gana, 1862) 49; Francisco Franco (1892-1975) 75; José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930) 106; “La emoción de nuestro tiempo” (essay by José Carlos Mariátegui) 106; Luisa Carnés (1905-?)106; Lorenzo Varela Vázquez (1917-1978) 106; James Gould Cozzens (1903-1978) 119, 124-125; Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 125; Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961) 125; C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) 125; William Faulkner (1897-1962) 125; Brighton Rock (novel by Graham Greene, 1938); Albert Camus (1913-1960) 153; et al.