Landscape in present body in the chronicles of José Donoso

Abstract

This article explores the constitution of an urban landscape in “present body” in a selection of chronicles and notes from diaries by José Donoso. Considering contemporary approaches to landscape, as well as the author´´'s own reflections, this work draws attention to a literary space where an affective landscape arises that confronts the dominant political context in the city of Santiago in the 1980s. Articulated from a corporeal and imaginative relation with the city, which implies a play on proximity and distance, this landscape confirms the literary design in Donoso’s chronicles.