Juan Carlos Onetti

• Jan-1976
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First published in 1950, this is a brilliant novel by one of the greats of Latin American literature ";Onetti's novels ar ethe corner stones of our modernity.";�,�”Carlos Fuentes ";The Graham Greene of Uruguay...foreshadowing the work of Beckett an...

• Apr-1990
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Onetti is the foremost contemporary Uruguayan prose writer, best known for a cycle of novels about Santa Maria, an imaginary town on the Rio de la Plata. This collection of stories, newly translated by Daniel Balderston (Spanish, Tulane U.), highligh...

• Aug-1991
• / General Fiction
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In the provincial Argentine town of Santa Maria, Larsen, a pimp, tries to create the perfect brothel, while Julita, a widow unable to accept the death of her husband, takes his younger brother as her lover...

• Nov-1992
• / General Fiction
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In the provincial Argentine town of Santa Maria, Larsen, a pimp, tries to create the perfect brothel, while Julita, a widow unable to accept the death of her husband, takes his younger brother as her lover...

• Aug-1996
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Regresar a la alucinada ciudad de Santa María, emplearse en el astillero de Petrus y enamorar a la hija de éste es para Larsen la última oportunidad de encontrar un sentido. Sin embargo, muy pronto dicha tentativa se convierte en una rigurosa fars...

• Mar-2007
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“The Graham Greene of Uruguay . . . foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.” -- The Sunday Telegraph 
With all the enthusiasm of a man condemned to be hanged, Larsen takes up his new post. Like the other workers at the shipyard, he routi...

• Aug-2008
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“The Graham Greene of Uruguay . . . foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.” -- The Sunday Telegraph

Medina lives across the river from Santa Maria, a town he is not allowed to enter and therefore wishes to destroy. Let the Wind Spe...

• Nov-2019
• / General Fiction
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A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor...