Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Donoso, José |
| Publisher: | Debolsillo |
| Date: | 6/21/2022 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Una novela intensa sobre los límites inciertos de la identidad, con el sello de uno de los grandes novelistas chilenos del siglo XX
Juego implícito con la ambigüedad de los sexos, estanovela breve e intensa de 1966, queJosé Donoso consideraba la más acabada de las suyas, transcurre en un prostíbulo de pueblo, especie de infierno anodino donde confluyen las pasioneseróticas y los sórdidos juegos de poder que suelen marcar los territorios degradados. La conflitiva historia de la Manuela, el homosexual travestidoque regenta el burdel, va desvelandolos secretos que se ocultan detrás de las apariencias, al tiempo que expone auna sociedad sumida en la decadencia y la incertidumbre.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
With its stark atmosphere, powerful characterizations, and dazzlingalterations of perspective in time and gender, Jose Donoso’s earlymasterwork, Hell Has No Limits,anticipates the qualities of better-known works of this Chilean magic-realistsuch as The Obscene Bird of Night.
Originally published in 1966, this grimly vivid novel evokes the sweetnessand despair during one fateful day in the collective existence of Estacion ElOlivo, a decayed community marked for doom as surely as Donoso’s centralcharacter, the transvestite dancer/prostitute la Manuela, whose virginaldaughter operates the brothel out of which she/he works.
La Manuela is menaced both by his would-be protector, the localpolitician/land baron who wants to raze Estacion El Olivo for his expandingvineyards, and by a coldly vengeful trucker, nursing a lifetime of hurts,deprivation, and suppressed sexual ambiguity. The lives of this trio – pastand present – are indelibly forged in the novel’s stunning climax, whichcombines a shocking act of violence in the present with a bizarre eroticencounter from decades before.
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