Name: Cuentos Selectos Letras al sur (in Spanish)
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Author: Juan Carlos Onetti

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Cuentos Selectos Letras al sur (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Carlos Onetti

Publisher

Corregidor

Synopsis "Cuentos Selectos Letras al sur (in Spanish)"

La obra onettiana se va constituyendo como un exceso incesante de sí misma, en el que los movimientos de flujo y reflujo, de retroceso y avance hacen lábiles los límites que separan las narraciones que la componen. Es una escritura extendida por desvíos y sinuosidades sesgadas, que desbaratan toda expectativa acerca de la tersura de su entramado hecho de discontinuidades discursivas, intersectado por innumerables relatos parciales atravesados por otros relatos parciales, que nunca encajan entre sí para constituir una entidad más extensa que los contenga, produciendo encuentros que se asemejan más al modelo de la colección que al de una estructuración fundada en inferencias causales. Esta Antología en consonancia con esos presupuestos, coloca los cuentos seleccionados en un orden progresivo que se corresponda con la secuencia cronológica de su publicación.

Juan Carlos Onetti

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Juan Carlos Onetti was one of the greatest Uruguayan writers and journalists. After growing up in an environment where he did not finish high school and had to work in various jobs, Onetti traveled to Buenos Aires in 1930, upon marrying his first wife. Once in Argentina, he began to publish film reviews and collaborate in magazines.

After his divorce, Onetti returns to Uruguay, although he travels regularly to Argentina, where he maintains good relations. During these years, Onetti never stops writing despite not finding facilities to publish. In 1936, he unsuccessfully tried to enlist in the International Brigades to participate in the Spanish Civil War.

From 1939, he began working for the Marcha magazine and published his first book, El pozo (1939). In 1941, he joined the Reuters Agency and in 1950 published La vida breve, considered his best novel, a foundational book of Santa María.

In 1975, he decided to settle in Madrid, distancing himself from the military dictatorship established in Uruguay. He continues writing and in 1980 is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. That same year, he receives the highest accolade in Hispanic letters: the Cervantes Prize. He also garnered other awards, such as the National Literature Prize of Uruguay or the Narrative Criticism Prize.

In 1993, his last novel was published: Cuando ya no importe, in which he closes the universe created around Santa María.

Onetti died in Madrid in 1994.

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