Lisa Fetchko

  • culture October 28, 2011

    The Lizard's Tale by José Donoso

    Northwestern University Press, in a fine translation by Suzanne Jill Levine, has just released The Lizard’s Tale, an unfinished novel by José Donoso first published in 1997, eleven years after the author’s death. Donoso, a Boom writer and Chile’s most important novelist until Bolaño, wrote The Lizard’s Tale in 1973 while he was living in Calaceite, a village in northeastern Spain. Three years before, he published his best-known work, The Obscene Bird of Night, a dense, ambitious novel that clinched his reputation as a canonical Latin-American writer. There is evidence that Donoso considered