He is not too happy, when he gets a call from Rolando Viveros, his friend and mentor but a man he does not really like. At the beginning he is in Chile, teaching, living with his wife, Nina. The book itself is what led up to the killing and to Gustavo’s actions. We learn about the shooting early on, as the narrator/protagonist, Gustavo Zuleta, a Chilean teacher of literature and expert on the great (but fictitious) Ecuadorian boom novelist, Marcelo Chiriboga, tells us who is killed by whom in the first chapter. This one has all the usual ingredients of the US academic novel – as well as the satire, there are extramarital affairs, often conducted openly, the blatant internal politics, professors grappling for status and reputation, neurotic students and teachers and, of course, the obligatory campus shooting. It is, moreover, an academic novel and few of them really work. ![]() Secondly, it is a relatively straightforward satire and much of the target of the satire is the US or, at least, the US Midwest and this may well have offended the US. Firstly, it is not like his earlier books – no magic realism, not your standard boom novel. This book has never been translated into English (or, as far as I can tell, into any other language) and it is not difficult to see why. Home » Chile » José Donoso » Dónde van a morir los elefantes José Donoso: Dónde van a morir los elefantes
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