The origin of the Casa is lost in centuries of myth and folklore, but it was most certainly founded as a refuge by eighteenth century progenitors of the Azcoit. Action in the novel is fragmented so that the reader must constantly reconstruct the basic thread: a history in retrospect of the wealthy, landed Azcoit. The present study will limit itself to a consideration of the aforementioned dual aspects of exterior and interior reality which form the framework, as it were, of this innovative work. A new socio- economic system must replace the exterior reality of Chilean life just as the negation of the traditional protagonist points the way toward new novelistic forms. There is a double axis on which Donoso's concept of reality is based the novel moves simultaneously on an exterior and an interior plane, leading eventually to a negation of both levels of action. It is clearly within the current of the innovative Spanish American novel of today in its cataloguing of the decline of bourgeois systems and values and in its creation of a new realism based on multiple mutations of the author's (and the reader's) creative imagination. ![]() Chile's political system was turning to state socialism in search of solutions to age- old nagging social and economic injustices, a careful reading of Donoso's text reveals a deep concern for national problems and at the same time marks the author as a major practitioner of the “nueva narrativa” in contemporary Spanish American letters. ![]() ![]() Donoso (Donde van a morir los elefantes). ![]() En contraste con las exposiciones homoer.
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