Josefina Delgado documents interviews with Chilean author José Donoso

Josefina Delgado published a book containing seven interviews she conducted with the Chilean author José Donoso in 1985. These conversations took place at the home of the writer of El lugar sin límites in Santiago de Chile.

The book explores the connection between the personal life and the literary work of Donoso. Delgado describes the author as a man from a privileged background who used his social position to create an inclusive literary style.

During the talks, Donoso shared his views on the purpose of literature, arguing that writers use reality as a starting point to understand how fiction functions rather than using books as a tool to describe social reality. The collection includes personal details about Donoso's family history and his literary influences, such as his reading of Marcel Proust.

It also features a series of letters from Donoso to Delgado written between 1983 and 1986 while he was finishing his work La desesperanza. The text captures the verbal exchanges between the two friends regarding his role in the Latin American literary boom.