by José Donoso · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402079190
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«El lugar sin límites» is the novel by Chilean writer José Donoso, published by Bruguera in hardcover, with 188 pages, in Spanish.
The story takes place in Estación El Olivo, a town near Talca. La Manuela, a cross-dressed character who runs a brothel, and her daughter, la Japonesita, are its central figures. Donoso portrays the misery of forgotten towns, everyday prostitution and identity, desire and social decay.
The 1981 edition is number 70 of the Club Bruguera collection. The novel was adapted into a movie in 1977 by Arturo Ripstein.
For readers of 20th-century Hispano-American narrative interested in sexual diversity, marginality and the portrayal of oppressed characters.
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.
