by José Donoso · MOTIFS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782842611026
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«Ce lieu sans limites» is the novel by Chilean writer José Donoso, published by Motifs in paperback (198 pages, in French).
The action takes place in Estación El Olivo, a small decadent town where Manuela, a transvestite brothel owner, ekes out a living amid misery and violence. The novel depicts a marginal and oppressive environment, with characters marked by their past and trapped by their origins.
French translation by Aline Schulman of the original novel «El lugar sin límites», published in 1966.
For readers of twentieth-century Latin American fiction and followers of José Donoso's work.
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.
