New title from the author of A Brief Life and The Shipyard, recognised as the Grahm Greene of Uruguay
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Published in 1979, this was Argentine Onetti's first novel written after his exile in Spain. The text is a bitter brew of love, hate, adoration, and destruction.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"'The Graham Greene of Uruguay' Sunday Telegraph 'Latin American literature has few secrets to divulge to the English-speaking world; but one of them is the Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti' Guardian 'The Graham Greene of Uruguay... foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus' Sunday Telegraph 'The Onetti experience is a curious one: readers end up feeling that they understand life better after a stay in this ghostly, tantalising world, only to lose the wisdom they have gained after a few hours of release from the spell. The form is subtle and delicate, the message sordid and bleak, the flavour inimitable' Guardian 'Onetti's voice and subject matter are his own... his work is always on a knife-edge... He is laconic, elegant, literary' London Review of Books"
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As a Uruguayan reader and book-lover, I take offense at an editorial review by the Library Journal which, in spite of its literary name, doesn't seem to have bothered to check the accuracy of the information it gives about books' authors. F.Y.I., Juan Carlos Onetti was not Argentinian. He was Uruguayan, and ranks with his countrymen, the literary geniuses Horacio Quiroga, Eduardo Galeano and Felisberto Hernández, in originality and quality of craftmanship. I can only say how sorry I am to see erroneous information happily published online, to the confusion and misguiding of readers.
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This review is from: Let the Wind Speak (Extraordinary Classics) (Paperback)
I bought ten "classics" from Latin America for a trip there and this was one of them. Of the ten books, this was my least favorite. I really thought it fizzled. The first two chapters brought my interest to a frenzy right away and then beyond that, it was reduced to a good line or thought every twenty pages. I know most reviews say this book is genius, but I find it bland, lacking in any kind of real depth or power or scope. See my other reviews for books I much prefer from Latin America- and not just Gabrielle Garcia Marquez books which anyone could tell you to read.
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The old man was already rotten and I found it strange that I was the only one who smelled the bittersweet, persistent odor; that neither the daughter nor the son-in-law commented on it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Santa Maria, Diaz Grey, New Year, Kid Manfredo, Maria Seoane, Carve Blanco, Prince Orloff, Santa Rosa, Villa Petrus New!
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- The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics) by Fernando Pessoa on page 277
- A Brief Life (Extraordinary Classics) by Juan Carlos Onetti on page 277
- The Red Coat by Ron Wright on page 122
- Quicksand and Passing (American Women Writers) by Nella Larsen on page 277
- Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English by Olive Classe on page 145
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures by Daniel Balderston on page 12
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