Description
In this darkly incisive novel, Don Andrés, a glum, middle-aged bachelor and last heir of a once-proud Chilean aristocracy, drifts through a life of isolation and quiet decay. When Estela, a seventeen-year-old peasant girl, enters his household, the fragile routines of his world begin to fracture—revealing how personal emptiness can mirror a broader moral collapse. As relationships shift and long-buried resentments surface, the story explores the insidious erosion of values, class privilege, and the self-deceptions that allow decline to masquerade as tradition. With José Donoso’s sharp psychological realism and unsettling, atmospheric prose, *Coronation* becomes a haunting meditation on how societies fall when their foundations—ethics, empathy, and meaning—quietly disappear.
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Published Jan 1, 1965
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Details
First Published
1965
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Coronation by José Donoso.