Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe: Two Novellas

by José Donoso

Book Overview

In them he poses many of the questions raised by his fellow Latin American writers, Fuentes, Garc?a Marquez, and Vargas Llosa: What is truth? How does one use history in fiction? How does an artist create? Taratuta is a mystery story in which a writer tries to track a slippery Russian revolutionary in history and in life. Still Life with Pipe shows the comeuppance of an ambitious man when he meets true art and can't escape its grasp. Donoso is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393311643
• ISBN13: 9780393311648
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Appreciation for this author is growing...

...and with good reason. Donoso has written some of the richest novels of the past half-century. Besides being a masterful craftsman, like Henry James, whose influence permeates his novels, Donoso manages to juggle fantastic fictional worlds and realist narratives, often integrating the two into a single work. These novellas are a great place to start if you are just becoming aware of Donoso. As in many of his stories, Donoso's personal life plays an important role in the formation of the plot. Check this out, then go pick up "A House In The Country" and "Curfew."