A Brief Life - Hardcover

Onetti, Juan Carlos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670190691 ISBN 13: 9780670190690

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1976

Synopsis

The Uruguayan writer's 1950 masterwork, in which a dissatisfied advertising copywriter in his forties discards his personal possessions, history, and rational consciousness and indulges in fantasy after fantasy in search of one moment of psychic weightlessness

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Review:

Latin American literature has few secrets to divulge to the English-speaking world; but one of them is the Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti? Gerald Martin, Guardian 'Is The Shipyard a one-off masterpiece? I hope that having reconstituted it for English readers, the translator and publisher will decide to take the rust off the rest of Onetti's works (John Spurling Spectator)

From the Back Cover:

'Latin American literature has few secrets to divulge to the English-speaking world; but one of them is the Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti' GuardianBrausen is caring for his wife after a long illness. To compensate for the physical void which temporarily stalls their caresses, Brausen eavesdrops on his neighbours, a husband and wife; imagining their gestures and expressions. He also imagines stories: of a mythical town called Santa Maria, and of a doctor named Diaz Grey. But he not only wishes to imagine himself as someone else, he also seeks release from the world he knows. He leads many lives, some real and some fantastic, in order to experience a moment of psychic weightlessness - a 'brief life'.First published in 1950, this is a brilliant novel by one of the greats of Latin American literature.'The Graham Greene of Uruguay ... foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.' Sunday Telegraph'One of the giants of the twentieth century' Alan Warner

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0670190691
• ISBN 13: 9780670190690
• Binding: Hardcover