Claudio Arrau's copy

El Obsceno Pájaro de la Noche [The Obscene Bird of Night].

Barcelona: Biblioteca Breve, Editorial Seix Barral, S.A, 1970.

Price: $450.00

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First edition [stating "Primera Edicion. .." on copyright page]. 543 pp. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers have a two inch tear on the spine that has been mended with tape, else a very good copy. Claudio Arrau's signature is written on ffe in red ink with, "Buenos Aires 1973" beneath.

Item #333298

Donoso's feverish masterpiece, in which the forgotten retainer of a great family, Humberto Penaloza, undertakes to raise and protect the last of the family's line – a grotesque creature conceived in depravity and black magic. One of the great works of the Boom. Previously owned by Chilean classical pianist Claudio Arrau (1903 – 1991).