In this critical volume, Flora González Mandri provides a comprehensive reading of the narrative works of José Donoso, Chile's most prominent novelist. González Mandri concentrates particularly on questions of space and perspective within the theatrical-novelistic world Donoso creates, considering the "house" in his fiction as theater. Using the cultural theories of Bakhtin and Foucault and the seminal theories of theatricality by Peter Brooks and Barbara Freedman, González Mandri explores Donoso's complete novelistic works to date, placing him at the crux of Latin American postmodern production. Her sensitive readings of his novels provide access to the first-time reader of Donoso at the same time that they require experts to reconsider foregone conclusions, particularly concerning issues of gender, genre, and social perspective.