A House in the Country

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Vintage Books, Apr 12, 1985 - Fiction - 352 pages
The Ventura children--ranging in age from six to sixteen--pursue their own elaborate games on a magnificient estate in South America. When the adults leave for a picnic "the games" of the children erupt in destruction.

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A House in the Country: A Novel
José Donoso
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A House in the Country: A Novel
José Donoso
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Adelaida Adriano Gomara Agapito Aglaée Aída Amadeo Anselmo Arabela arms asked Balbina ballroom Berenice Blackamoor Chamber blue mountains brothers bundle cannibals carriages Casilda Celeste cellars Chef Cinq Heures Colomba Cordelia Cosme country house cousins danger door dressed Eulalia everything eyes Fabio face father foreigners Francis of Assisi garden girl gold grass grown-ups hands head Hermógenes Higinio horizon inside Juan Pérez Justiniano Juvenal keep knew lackeys lances leave Lidia livery look Ludmila Majordomo Malvina Marquise Est Sortie Marulanda matter Mauro Melania Mignon mother natives never night Olegario parents park piano nobile picnic plain play railing reader secret seemed servants shouted silence Silvestre smile soon Sortie à Cinq south terrace stood stopped summer tell Terencio things trompe l'oeil turned Uncle Adriano's Valerio veloutée Venturas voice Wenceslao whispered Zoé

About the author (1985)

Donoso obsessive subject is the decay of the Chilean bourgeoisie, but he vigorously rejects anything reminiscent of traditional realism or the portrayal of regional customs. In This Sunday (1966), he focuses on a family's activities on Sundays in order to view the boredom, passions, and misery of Chilean bourgeois society and its servants. The Obscene Bird of Night (1970) deals with the decline of feudal society through the story of a landholding family in a kaleidoscopic vision of decay and outrageous behavior.

Bibliographic information

TitleA House in the Country
Aventura Series
Pantheon Asia Library
AuthorJosé Donoso
Editionreprint
PublisherVintage Books, 1985
ISBN0394736575, 9780394736570
Length352 pages
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