A Brief Life (Extraordinary Classics)

Juan Carlos Onetti

ISBN 10: 1852423013 / ISBN 13: 9781852423018

Published by Serpent's Tail, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Brief Life (Extraordinary Classics)
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852423013
• ISBN 13: 9781852423018
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Brausen is an advertising copywriter in his forties. He leads many lives, some real and some fantastic: he seeks release from himself and from the empirical world he knows, in order to experience a moment of psychic weightlessness - a ?brief life?. True to his creator's vision, he learns that to get out of one's skin is an impossible task, however, the attempt is in itself an act of redemption.

About the Author

Acknowledged as one of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, Juan Carlos Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1909. For many years he worked as a journalist in Buenos Aires. His novels include The Well, No Man's Life, and his best known work, The Shipyard. He was awarded Uruguay's national literature prize in 1963 and Spain's prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1980. He lived in Madrid until his death in 1994.