DONOSO & ANTÚNEZ. REGARDING SOME ICONIC PARATEXTS

Abstract

In the following pages, we will address the collaborative work between José Donoso and Nemesio Antúnez toward the end of the 50s, specifically during the initial period of their recognition and disciplinary consolidation. From the iconic paratexts – engravings incorporated into the textual flow of Dos cuentos (1956), such as the image/work on the cover of Coronación (1957) – we will recognize the interest in bringing their disciplines to a tension that naturally leads to the constitution of a work in which the imagetext (Mitchell, 2009) seeks to impose a new regime of reading and assemblage of the book, without privileging the written word over the image. The apparent autonomy of the two registers (letter and image), in the light of our reading proposal, rather projects a common curatorial ideology that reinforces the aesthetic proposal of both creators, where solitude, power, masquerade, madness, ruin, pain, exile, class, etc. leave an indelible mark.