El obsceno pájaro de la noche y el absurdo en la obra de José Donoso

Abstract

This essay analyses the presence of the aesthetics of the absurd in José Donoso’s El obsceno pájaro de la noche (1970). The appearance of such aesthetic category in the author’s novel is observed as deriving from the previous avant-garde engagements of Donoso’s narrative, where experimentalism is discernible already in his early works from the late 50’s and early 60’s. El obsceno pájaro de la noche will appear as the culmination of Donoso’s first phase, and where the irrational and fragmented discourse produced by the delirious mind of the protagonist will disclose the contradictions present in the novel as the direct expression of existential lack of meaning