FROM ONE GENRE TO ANOTHER: THE SUNDAYS OF JOSÉ DONOSO

Abstract

Almost twenty-five years after the first edition of his novel Este domingo –which dates back to 1966–, José Donoso, in close collaboration with the narrator and playwright Carlos Cerda, rewrites the story represented there to propose a theatrical version of it, premiered and staged by the ICTUS Theater in Santiago on June 12, 1990. In this article I would have liked to comment and analyze the main discursive changes carried out in this process, as well as the scope and meaning of this particular generic transformation, but ‒for reasons of time and space‒ I will limit myself only to some general observations about this rewriting exercise and to present some cases that seemed representative to me.