by José Donoso · Calmann-Lévy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702103456
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«Casa de campo» is the novel by José Donoso, published by Calmann-Lévy in paperback (360 pages, in French).
The novel follows the Ventura family, settled in a baroque mansion on an inhospitable plain. When the adults leave, the thirty-three children are left alone and order crumbles until a monstrous system takes over. It is a political allegory about freedom, revolution and the decay of power, evoking Chile in the 1970s.
The original was published in 1978 and the novel received the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana.
For readers interested in Latin American narrative and political allegories about the Chilean dictatorship.
José Manuel Donoso Yáñez, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he stated that he had left Chile in the 1960s for personal reasons, after 1973 his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death in 1996.
