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Notebook 46, 1974 February 21-1975 March 26

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Collection Creator:
Donoso, José (1924-1996)
Dates:
1974 February 21-1975 March 26
Located In:
Box 56, Folder 7
Extent:
1 folder
Languages:
Spanish; Castilian
Scope and Contents

322 pages. Dates and locations, 1974 February 21-1975 March 26; Calaceite, Spain (1-309) on the ship to New York (309-312) Princeton , N. J. (313-322).

Notebook on Casa de campo. Preoccupation with plot details, tone, and characterization. The first half of the notebook contains notes for chs. 9-14 and records a period of intense work on the novel. After completing a first draft the author starts a second. By the end of the notebook the first two chapters have been revised once more. As the keeping of an intimate diary becomes a literary activity in itself, work on the novel almost stops. It is replaced by numerous disclosures regarding the author (including a psychological crisis) and those around him.

Themes, sadism, 3; violence, 6; authority, 8; change and growing up, 16; religion, 37; clandestine sexuality, 39; fear, 105; repression, 132; keeping up the facade, 158; mother-son relations, 181; morality and politics, 183; extremist, 185; power, 186.

Characters, los sirvientes, Adriano; Juvenal; Juan Pérez; los extranjeros; los nativos; Celeste; el mayordomo; Cordelia; Wenceslao; el jardinero major; el chef; Elías; Augusto; Higinio; Genaro; Melania; Marcial; Florencia; Adelaida; César; Silvestre; Berenice; Terencio; Colomba; Balbina; Lidia; Ramón Fernández; Agapito Pérez; Alamiro; Hermógenes; Malvina; Delfina; Morgana; Eulalia; Casilda; Anselmo; Ludmila; Olegario; Amadeo; Valerio; Clemente; Avelino; Cosme.

Character Sketches, Celeste, 11; Adriano, 187-188; los sirvientes, 190; Augusto, 222; considerations about characterization in general, 21, 31, 32-33, 156, 173, 181, 183, 190, 223.

References, J. Edwards, 5, 34, 44, 142, 149, 150; I. Compton-Burnett, 5, 55, 101, 102, 103, 132; E. Feinstein, 5; G. Steiner, 5, 18, 19, 37, 38, 39, 47, 55, 57, 120; H. Melville, 5, 6, 55, 101, 102; B. Pérez Galdós, 6; E. Pardo Bazán, 6; T. S. Eliot, 19; L. Trilling, 19; N. Chomsky, 19; M. Vargas Llosa, 23, 34, 38, 39-40, 41, 149, 150, 155, 189, 203, 271; G. García Márquez, 34, 148, 149, 150; Burke, 38; W. Wordsworth, 38; R. Burns, 38; J. Hogg, 38; W. Scott, 19; J. Cortázar, 38, 40, 70, 149, 150, 187, 310; G. Sand, 39; M. Puig, 39, 40, 201, 203; C. Isherwood, 40; N. Parra, 41; A. Vanasco 55; O. Mandelstam, 57, 58, 120, 131, 154, 158; A. Akhmatova, 57, 131, 154, 155, 158, 300; Cazin, 66; C. Fuentes, 69, 149, 150; H. Padilla, 70; A. Castro, 73; V. Thompson, 71; G. Stein, 71; [F.] Schubert, 73; M. A. Asturias, 96; J. E. Pacheco, 95; L. Visconti, 98, 178; M. Antonioni, 98, 178; M. Aguirre, 105; J. Riviere and M. Klein, 112; S. Freud, 112; F. Will, 113; W. Shakespeare, 127; C. Brontë, 129; S. Sarduy, 138; M. L. Uribe, 142; S. Zweig, 142; Stendhal, 147; A. Robbe-Grillet, 148; A. Uribe, 148; E. Lafourcade, 150, 151; A. D. Sakharov, 154, 155; A. I. Solzhenitzyn, 154; R. M. Rike, 154; G. Flaubert, 155; M. Graham, 156; A. de Lamartine, 156; M. I. Tsvetayeva, 158; V. V. Mayakovski, 158; S. Yesenin, 158; J. Brodsky, 158; W. H. Auden, 159; B. Fernández Moreno, 159; P. Neruda, 168, 314; A. Camus, 175; A. Moravia, 181; A. Dorfman, 183, 185; A. J. Symons, 185; O. Fallaci, 186; J. Conrad, 188; M. Peake, 189, 193, 194, 200, 201, 210, 224; A. Rimbaud, 189, 226; H. James, 201, 211, 216, 218, 223-224, 287; L. Carroll, 210, 299, 300; V. Woolf, 214, 259, 300; F. Caballero, 220; P. P. Read, 224; L. Tolstoi, 228; P. Shaffer, 242, 286; B. Brecht, 286; C. Dickens, 293; D. Arbus, 299; J. Cameron, 300; N. Mandelstam, 313; F. García Lorca, 314; C. Spies, 314; I. Stravinsky, 314; M. Proust, 319; G. D. Painter, 319; P. Baroja, 319; H. James, 320.

Secondary Projects, a short book or a lecture titled "Biografía de mis novelas", 22; an analysis of J. Cortázar's work, 38 ff; a comparative essay on M. Vargas Llosa and M. Puig, 38, 39-40, 201, 203; a travel journal, 47; an essay on several novelists, 47; a short essay on the "boom" and the backdrops of literature, 71-72, 75-76; a volume of poetry titled "Album de retratos" , 146, 159, 298-300; a short story on the theme of exile and returning to the native land, 155-156; a novel in the form of a travel journal, 156; a short book on the author's madness, 174-178; an essay on "the philosophy of gardens", 183; a novel titled "Crónica familiar. .1974", 184; a play on the last period of A. Rimbaud's life, 189, 226, 313; an evaluation of H. James's notebooks, 201; a collection of short stories on ghosts and revenants, 216-218; a short novel, 301; a short story or a nouvelle titled "The Friend", 314-320; other nouvelles, 320-322.

Miscellaneous, an evaluation of J. Edwards' Persona non grata, 5; references to persons, places, and events which furnish elements for the novelistic world, 8, 57, 58, 65, 66, 129, 143, 183, 194, 200, 210, 227, 250, 287, 313; notes about the method of work to be followed in the writing of the novel, 10, 21-22, 30, 77, 95, 116, 156, 191-192, 221; notes on narrative techniques, 25, 223, 305; comments about the value of the novel, 30, 32, 178, 271; a list of the most interesting adult characters, 32; references to political events in Chile, 34, 57; financial considerations, 35-36, 213-215, 224, 225, 242-243, 258, 290-291, unnumbered pages at the end of the notebook; considerations about the works of J. Cortázar and N. Parra, 41; a list of the author's works, 46; notes about the tone of the novel, 103, 116, 165, 189, 200, 201, 209, 211, 239; lists of persons to whom the author should write, 113, 134, unnumbered pages toward the end of the notebook; an evaluation of the works of M. L. Uribe, 142-143; a list of aspects to be developed in the second draft of the novel, 157-158; a poem in French, 183; notes about the setting of the novel. 194 ff; an enumeration of the foreign families that have taken residence in Calaceite, 274; observations made on the train to Washington, D. C., 313-314; on unnumbered pages at the end of the notebook, a list of things to be done in the house, a list of persons to whom the author should say goodby, a list of things to be packed and locked, names and telephone numbers, a list of family photographs and their dates, a list of surnames beginning with "U", drawings of female figures.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.

Credit this material:

Notebook 46; José Donoso Papers, C0099, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (mss): Box 56
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Processing Information

The core of this collection was processed by Rodolfo Aiello in 1993. Finding aid written by Rodolfo Aiello in 1994 and later updated by Karla Vecchia in 2004.

Custodial History

The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.

Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

322 pages. Dates and locations, 1974 February 21-1975 March 26; Calaceite, Spain (1-309) on the ship to New York (309-312) Princeton , N. J. (313-322).

Notebook on Casa de campo. Preoccupation with plot details, tone, and characterization. The first half of the notebook contains notes for chs. 9-14 and records a period of intense work on the novel. After completing a first draft the author starts a second. By the end of the notebook the first two chapters have been revised once more. As the keeping of an intimate diary becomes a literary activity in itself, work on the novel almost stops. It is replaced by numerous disclosures regarding the author (including a psychological crisis) and those around him.

Themes, sadism, 3; violence, 6; authority, 8; change and growing up, 16; religion, 37; clandestine sexuality, 39; fear, 105; repression, 132; keeping up the facade, 158; mother-son relations, 181; morality and politics, 183; extremist, 185; power, 186.

Characters, los sirvientes, Adriano; Juvenal; Juan Pérez; los extranjeros; los nativos; Celeste; el mayordomo; Cordelia; Wenceslao; el jardinero major; el chef; Elías; Augusto; Higinio; Genaro; Melania; Marcial; Florencia; Adelaida; César; Silvestre; Berenice; Terencio; Colomba; Balbina; Lidia; Ramón Fernández; Agapito Pérez; Alamiro; Hermógenes; Malvina; Delfina; Morgana; Eulalia; Casilda; Anselmo; Ludmila; Olegario; Amadeo; Valerio; Clemente; Avelino; Cosme.

Character Sketches, Celeste, 11; Adriano, 187-188; los sirvientes, 190; Augusto, 222; considerations about characterization in general, 21, 31, 32-33, 156, 173, 181, 183, 190, 223.

References, J. Edwards, 5, 34, 44, 142, 149, 150; I. Compton-Burnett, 5, 55, 101, 102, 103, 132; E. Feinstein, 5; G. Steiner, 5, 18, 19, 37, 38, 39, 47, 55, 57, 120; H. Melville, 5, 6, 55, 101, 102; B. Pérez Galdós, 6; E. Pardo Bazán, 6; T. S. Eliot, 19; L. Trilling, 19; N. Chomsky, 19; M. Vargas Llosa, 23, 34, 38, 39-40, 41, 149, 150, 155, 189, 203, 271; G. García Márquez, 34, 148, 149, 150; Burke, 38; W. Wordsworth, 38; R. Burns, 38; J. Hogg, 38; W. Scott, 19; J. Cortázar, 38, 40, 70, 149, 150, 187, 310; G. Sand, 39; M. Puig, 39, 40, 201, 203; C. Isherwood, 40; N. Parra, 41; A. Vanasco 55; O. Mandelstam, 57, 58, 120, 131, 154, 158; A. Akhmatova, 57, 131, 154, 155, 158, 300; Cazin, 66; C. Fuentes, 69, 149, 150; H. Padilla, 70; A. Castro, 73; V. Thompson, 71; G. Stein, 71; [F.] Schubert, 73; M. A. Asturias, 96; J. E. Pacheco, 95; L. Visconti, 98, 178; M. Antonioni, 98, 178; M. Aguirre, 105; J. Riviere and M. Klein, 112; S. Freud, 112; F. Will, 113; W. Shakespeare, 127; C. Brontë, 129; S. Sarduy, 138; M. L. Uribe, 142; S. Zweig, 142; Stendhal, 147; A. Robbe-Grillet, 148; A. Uribe, 148; E. Lafourcade, 150, 151; A. D. Sakharov, 154, 155; A. I. Solzhenitzyn, 154; R. M. Rike, 154; G. Flaubert, 155; M. Graham, 156; A. de Lamartine, 156; M. I. Tsvetayeva, 158; V. V. Mayakovski, 158; S. Yesenin, 158; J. Brodsky, 158; W. H. Auden, 159; B. Fernández Moreno, 159; P. Neruda, 168, 314; A. Camus, 175; A. Moravia, 181; A. Dorfman, 183, 185; A. J. Symons, 185; O. Fallaci, 186; J. Conrad, 188; M. Peake, 189, 193, 194, 200, 201, 210, 224; A. Rimbaud, 189, 226; H. James, 201, 211, 216, 218, 223-224, 287; L. Carroll, 210, 299, 300; V. Woolf, 214, 259, 300; F. Caballero, 220; P. P. Read, 224; L. Tolstoi, 228; P. Shaffer, 242, 286; B. Brecht, 286; C. Dickens, 293; D. Arbus, 299; J. Cameron, 300; N. Mandelstam, 313; F. García Lorca, 314; C. Spies, 314; I. Stravinsky, 314; M. Proust, 319; G. D. Painter, 319; P. Baroja, 319; H. James, 320.

Secondary Projects, a short book or a lecture titled "Biografía de mis novelas", 22; an analysis of J. Cortázar's work, 38 ff; a comparative essay on M. Vargas Llosa and M. Puig, 38, 39-40, 201, 203; a travel journal, 47; an essay on several novelists, 47; a short essay on the "boom" and the backdrops of literature, 71-72, 75-76; a volume of poetry titled "Album de retratos" , 146, 159, 298-300; a short story on the theme of exile and returning to the native land, 155-156; a novel in the form of a travel journal, 156; a short book on the author's madness, 174-178; an essay on "the philosophy of gardens", 183; a novel titled "Crónica familiar. .1974", 184; a play on the last period of A. Rimbaud's life, 189, 226, 313; an evaluation of H. James's notebooks, 201; a collection of short stories on ghosts and revenants, 216-218; a short novel, 301; a short story or a nouvelle titled "The Friend", 314-320; other nouvelles, 320-322.

Miscellaneous, an evaluation of J. Edwards' Persona non grata, 5; references to persons, places, and events which furnish elements for the novelistic world, 8, 57, 58, 65, 66, 129, 143, 183, 194, 200, 210, 227, 250, 287, 313; notes about the method of work to be followed in the writing of the novel, 10, 21-22, 30, 77, 95, 116, 156, 191-192, 221; notes on narrative techniques, 25, 223, 305; comments about the value of the novel, 30, 32, 178, 271; a list of the most interesting adult characters, 32; references to political events in Chile, 34, 57; financial considerations, 35-36, 213-215, 224, 225, 242-243, 258, 290-291, unnumbered pages at the end of the notebook; considerations about the works of J. Cortázar and N. Parra, 41; a list of the author's works, 46; notes about the tone of the novel, 103, 116, 165, 189, 200, 201, 209, 211, 239; lists of persons to whom the author should write, 113, 134, unnumbered pages toward the end of the notebook; an evaluation of the works of M. L. Uribe, 142-143; a list of aspects to be developed in the second draft of the novel, 157-158; a poem in French, 183; notes about the setting of the novel. 194 ff; an enumeration of the foreign families that have taken residence in Calaceite, 274; observations made on the train to Washington, D. C., 313-314; on unnumbered pages at the end of the notebook, a list of things to be done in the house, a list of persons to whom the author should say goodby, a list of things to be packed and locked, names and telephone numbers, a list of family photographs and their dates, a list of surnames beginning with "U", drawings of female figures.

Arrangement

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Collection History

Custodial History

The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.

Appraisal

No appraisal information is available.

Processing Information

The core of this collection was processed by Rodolfo Aiello in 1993. Finding aid written by Rodolfo Aiello in 1994 and later updated by Karla Vecchia in 2004.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.

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Notebook 46; José Donoso Papers, C0099, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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