Coronation

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Coronation

novel by Donoso

Also known as: “Coronación”

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José Donoso
…the debut novel Coronación (1957; Coronation), which won him the William Faulkner Foundation Prize in 1962. It presents the moral collapse of an aristocratic family and suggests that an insidious loss of values affects all sectors of society. Donoso’s second and third novels, Este domingo (1966; This Sunday) and El…
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…the debut novel Coronación (1957; Coronation), which won him the William Faulkner Foundation Prize in 1962. It presents the moral collapse of an aristocratic family and suggests that an insidious loss of values affects all sectors of society. Donoso’s second and third novels, Este domingo (1966; This Sunday) and El…
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Latin American literature
The boom novels
…pimp with ambitions; Coronación (1962; Coronation) by Donoso, a sardonic chronicle of the Chilean middle to upper-middle class; Tres tristes tigres (1967; Three Trapped Tigers), by Cabrera Infante, a hilariously funny yet sombre portrayal of Havana on the eve of the Cuban Revolution; and Lezama Lima’s Paradiso (1966; Paradiso), a…
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…pimp with ambitions; Coronación (1962; Coronation) by Donoso, a sardonic chronicle of the Chilean middle to upper-middle class; Tres tristes tigres (1967; Three Trapped Tigers), by Cabrera Infante, a hilariously funny yet sombre portrayal of Havana on the eve of the Cuban Revolution; and Lezama Lima’s Paradiso (1966; Paradiso), a…
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