The Obscene Bird of Night. José Donoso

José Donoso is considered one of the most important authors of Chile and Latin America as a whole. “The Promiscuous Bird of the Night” — his most famous novel — is mentioned, for example, in Harold Bloom’s “Western Canon”. This book reveals perhaps the most complete of the leading motifs of the Chilean writer’s work: social antagonism and psychic obsession. The worldview of the novel “The Promiscuous Bird of the Night” is written in the best traditions of modernism — irrational, nonlinear, chaotic — it hypnotizes the reader, introduces him to a state on the verge of unconsciousness and allows him to experience an almost schizophrenic experience.