Notebook 14, 1958-11-15 - 1958-11-28

Item — Box: 7

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Scope and Contents

349 pages holograph. Various drafts of "Temporada en el Limbo." 28 pages and 38 pages. Various drafts of "Casa Particular," 34 pages. Notes on other novelists. Notes for a short story titled "La Casa del Gringo." Notes and ideas for new stories. Drafts of "El Charleston," 35 pages. A draft of "La Pieza Redonda," 49 pages. Various drafts of "Las Viboras," 13 pages and 38 pages. Notes and the beginning of "El Mentiroso." Several drafts of "El la Otra Casa" (later titled "La Puerta Cerrada), 27 pages.

Dates

Creation: 1958-11-15 - 1958-11-28

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

334 numbered pages plus 15 unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook. November 15 (Totoral, Córdoba); November 29 (Totoral, Córdoba). Most of the pages written recto and verso. Notes in red ink are later.

Index Card: 15 de Noviembre 1958. 28 de Noviembre 1958. Me pongo de novio por primera vez con M Pilar, por teléfono y carta. Escribo mucho cuento malo LA PUERTA CERRADA (La otra casa) comienza aquí. Content: Drafts notes and comments of "Temporada en el Limbo"; Drafts of "Casa Particular"; Notes on other novelists; Notes for "La Casa del Gringo"; Ideas, notes and drafts for "El Charleston"; A draft and some notes for "La Pieza Redonda"; Drafts notes and comments for "Las Víboras"; Notes for a story titled "El Mentiroso"; Ideas, notes, comments and several drafts for "En la Otra Casa" (later titled "La Puerta Cerrada"); Notes and ideas for prospective short stories. Works in progress: “Temporada en el Limbo”: 3-28; 176-206 (Characters: Extraño, anciana, Señora Anderson, Agatha, jefe de Sebastián, médico, policías); “Casa Particular”: 31-63 (Characters: Erminda Araya, Patricio, Martita Cienfuegos de Rodríguez, Florentino Madrid, Beatriz Echagüe, Rosa Mendez, Teófilo Ramos, Lucinda Renjifo); “La casa del Gringo”: 82-83; “Charleston”: 79-80; 85-120 (Characters: Jaime, Sócrates, Lucy, Haydée, Chinchulín, Jaime); “La pieza redonda”: 120-169; 227 (Characters: Jorge Elizalde (later Felipe Sáenz), padre, madre, hermanos, Tío Eduardo (later Tío Gregorio), novia de Gregorio, Catalina Rosa, Alicia, Aggie, Miguel, Claus); “Las víboras”: 208-266; 272-277 (Characters: Bonifacio Vera, Ernestina Valdés, Ignacio de la Peña, Marta, mayordomo, Ricardo Vera, Farias, Néstor, Cortes); “El mentiroso”: 278-288; “En la otra casa”: 289- end of the notebook (Characters: Adela Rengifo, Sebastián, vecina del cuarto, médico joven, jefe de Sebastián, hijas del jefe).

Work Plans: "El mentiroso”: 29 -31; 277-288; "En la otra casa”: 327-332.

Secondary Projects: Ideas for a short story: 29-30; Ideas for a short story: 79; Ideas for a short story: 83-84; Notes and ideas: 171 ; Ideas for a novel: 266-271.

Miscellaneous: List of titles for different short stories and their probable number of pages: 1, 170; Review of the activities during the day. Thoughts on “Temporada en el limbo” and comments on books recently read: 64-78; Thoughts: 81-82; Working plans for the following weeks: 172-174; “Bitacora”: 174-175; Drawing and dedicatory: unnumbered pages; “El mundo de mis hijos”: list of names; List of visitors: notebook’s last page.

References: Jack London (1876-1916) 22; Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) 22; Fidel Castro (1926) 65; Voltaire in Love (novel by Nancy Mitford, 1957) 67; Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) 67; François Mauriac (1885-1970) 68, 70, 78; Génitrix (novel by François Mauriac, 1923) 68; Albert Camus (1913-1960) 68, 70; Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 70; Julien Green (1900-1998) 72; Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 75; Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) 75; Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) 76; Cuentos Romanos (volumes of short stories by Alberto Moravia, 1954) 76; Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) 78; Pío Baroja (1872-1956) 78; El mundo es ansi (novel by Pio Baroja, 1912 ) 78; William Faulkner (1897-1962) 78, 266; Las palmeras salvajes, (novel by William Faulkner, 1939) 78; Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) 78, 83; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 83; Lauren Bacall (1924) 100; Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) 100; Jane Russell (1921) 100; Julio Verne (1828-1905) 132; Alicia en el país de las maravillas (Lewis Carroll, 1865) 182; Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 187; Lord Byron (1788-1824) 197; Juan Domingo Perón (1895-1974) 200; Arturo Frondizi (1908-1995) 201; Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) 267, 268; Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) 326; et al.