Authorizing Fictions: José Donoso's `Casa de Campo'

by Marie Murphy

A critique of the Chilean novelist's A House in the country, studying particularly its representation of the many-faceted concept of authority'.

Casa de campo combines the techniques of traditional novels with the 20th-century intermingling of reality and fiction. The novel's central theme of authority as figured in the discourse, its play between reality and illusion, and its dialogue with literature and society as a whole form the subject...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855660202
• ISBN13: 9781855660205
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"