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During the months of July and August 1990, a series of literary debates were organised at the Municipal Theatre in Santiago as part of the programme "Arts in the Capital": on each of these occasions a figure relevant to the arts in Chile and a national political or cultural figure were invited to participate.
In the debate which is reproduced here (in a limited version), entitled "Limits and Horizons of the Contemporary Novel", the participants were Jose Donoso, winner of the National Prize for Literature (1990) and David Gallagher, essayist and literary critic. The exchange, which took the form of a question and answer session, was presided over by the poet and professor of literature, Federico Schopf.