195 pages numbered by JD plus 2 unnumbered pages towards the end of the notebook. June 10, 1959 (no place specified). August 10, 1959 (no place specified)

No index card.

Content: Character, content, sequence analyses and drafts of works started in notebooks 15 and 16. Broad outlines for “El Ultimo Azcoitia.”

Works in progress: 1.1 “Virgenes necias”: 1-28; 1.2 “Paseos” (later “Paseo”): 29-98, 121-131, 133-138* (page unnumbered by JD) 139-156; 1.3 “Las virgenes necias” 98-120; 1.4 “Pasatiempos para gente civilizada” 162-180; 1.5 “El ultimo Azcoitia”: 181-194

Characters: Alicia Diaz Pastor, Rita, Tessie, Ricardo Quinones, Marcelo Diaz Pastor, Ana Maria Rocha, Daniel Riquelme, Angelina; Tia Matilde, tio Armando (later Gustavo); Alicia, Tessie, Marcelo, Rita; 1.4 Don Carlos Balcarce, Dino; 1.5 Jeronimo Azcoitia, Dela (later Ines de Azcotia), Boy, el polaco.

Sketches: 1-2; 1.3 99, 101-2; 1.4 167-172; 1.5 183-185, 189-191.

Thoughts and reflections: 1.1 3; 1.2 35-37, 77-78, 98, 100, 102-3, 159; 1.3 109, 118-120; 1.4 162, 166, 167, 173-180; 1.5 185-189, 192-194.

References I: Azorin (José Augusto Trinidad Martínez Ruiz) 160; Inés Figueroa, 160; Carmen Orrego Montes, 181; Gide, 119; Jorge Luis Borges, 173; 132 10 titles for a future volume; 156-158 excitement after finishing “Paseo”, writing plans; 158 Idea for a short story based on Flaubert and Louise Colet; 159 need of writing; 160-161 Commented list of finished short stories; 194 List of 7 titles of short stories, drawing. Expresses the will of continuing in a new notebook; Unnumbered page: three verses in pencil; Unnumbered page: Drawings of 2 female faces.

References II: Buzzati, 4; “El sermón de la montaña”, 73, 86; Boris Pasternak, 79; Gauthama Budha, 86; Georges Bernanos, “Dialogue des Carmelites”, 86; “Before Philosophy”(Henri Frankfort et al), 93-4; Eliot (First name unspecified) 93; Elvira Orpheé, 151, 159, 160, 172, 173, 174; María Rosa Oliver, 151, 173; Inés Figueroa, 155; Elsie Rivero Haedo, 156; Pio Baroja, 157; Enrique Lafourcade, 158; Carlos George Nascimento, 158; Miguel Ocampo, 159; Josefina Robirosa, 159, 173; Victoria Ocampo, 159; Rosa Chacel, 173; Andersen, 174; Anton Chejov, 176, 181, 188; Tennessee Williams, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof “,176, 181; Bertolt Brecht, 184; Jean Genet “Las criadas “, 188; “Hamlet”, 188; “El tiempo y los Conway”, 188; Christopher Isherwood, 207; Perico Muller, 234; Impressions after sightseeing from a streetcar; 183 impressions on a play titled “Alemania, Tercer Reich”; 206-7 Plans for the coming week; 228 Idea for a nouvelle; 166* Donoso’s transcription of what Ricardo Latchman (1903-1965) comments on his work in an article published in “Noticias de ultima hora”, on December, 29, 1957; 167-168* Donoso’s transcription of what Juan de Luigi comments on his work, in an article published in ”La Gaceta”, on March 9, 1958; 169* Donoso’s transcription of what Mario Benedetti comments on his work, in an article published in “Marcha” (Uruguay) on May 20, 1958; 169- 173* Donoso’s transcription of what Rosa Chacel comments on “Coronacion” and “Veraneo”, in an article published in “Sur” (Buenos Aires) on May-June, 1957; 174- 175 Donoso’s transcription Raul Silva Castro’s comments on “Coronacion”, in an article published in “El Mercurio” (Santiago) on January, 4, 1958; 176* Donoso’s transcription of Alone’s comments, in “El Mercurio” (Santiago) on January, 19, 1958; 177* Donoso’s transcription of a comment on his work. Author, date and place of publication is omitted; 178* list of 9 names set in pairs; 179* list of 15 names set in pairs; 180 Drawings of 3 female faces and a list of 10 people, in which the first name is Maria Pilar Serrano; 181* list of 8 people he plans to call on the phone or who are supposed to call him; Drawings of a lady; 182* drawing of a female and 2 male figures; list of people he needs to call; 183* numbers, probably points scored in a game or amounts of money; 184* Notes, drawings. “Doña Abajo Chiangkai Chek Rutherford de Chiung Lo”; 187-184* “Contra J.I. Huhmes?; 188* Drawings of a female face; numbers; 189-190* Drawings of a woman and a female face; thoughts on a character; 191* List of books to be read; an address; drawing of a face.