A review by taitmckenzie
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso

5.0

It's hard to describe exactly what the book is about, the back cover blurb says it's the story of the last member of an aristocratic family who is born a monster and locked up in a labyrinth of other monsters so that he never learns what he really is, but at the same time this is only a small part of what are many other interwoven plots in the book. However, what was almost more fascinating than the oftentimes decadent and disturbing content, is the way that Donoso manages of weaving the entire story together, so that each plot seems to reflect or multiply the other plots, making the novel itself the labyrinth that entraps monstrosities.