Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994)
Author of The Shipyard
About the Author
Onetti's subject is the decay and materialism of the modern world, but he presents it in a dense, indirect prose style that creates a world often bordering on nightmare. The narrator of A Brief Life (1950) creates a number of other existences for himself to escape the boredom and limits, symbolized show more by his wife's mastectomy, of his own. Ultimately, the created worlds take over supposed reality. The Shipyard (1961), generally considered his best novel, demonstrates the central character's inability to control his life in an absurd existence. Onetti's characters never cease trying to create meaning, but they flounder helplessly in a world that is beyond their efforts at control. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Juan Carlos Onetti
Jacob y el Otro: Un Sueno Realizado y Otros Cuentos (Coleccion "Reconquista") (Spanish Edition) (1971) 3 copies
Hlbočina 2 copies
Lijkendrijver (1964) 1 copy
Artık Fark Etmediğinde 1 copy
Veda Ederken 1 copy
Cinco novelas cortas: El pozo; Los adioses; La cara de la desgracia; Tan triste como ella; Para una tumba sin nombre (1997) 1 copy
Coleccin De Cuentos 1 copy
ONE El astillero 1 copy
Bodysnatcher 1 copy
Cuentos de Cabecera 9 1 copy
Requiem por Faulkner 1 copy
Feelin Rooti 1 copy
Tan Triste Como Ella 1 copy
Associated Works
Die Geschichtenerzähler: Neues und Unbekanntes von Allende bis Zafón (suhrkamp taschenbuch) (2008) — Contributor — 5 copies
Maestros de la literatura universal. Tomo II: Latinoamérica — Contributor — 3 copies
Dragostea (Grisazul). Recopilación de literatura sobre el viaje — Contributor — 1 copy
Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Rulfo : Grandes Personajes a Fondo — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1909-07-01
- Date of death
- 1994-05-30
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Uruguay (birth)
- Country (for map)
- Uruguay
- Birthplace
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Place of death
- Madrid, Spain
- Places of residence
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Montevideo, Uruguay
Madrid, Spain - Occupations
- novelist
short-story writer - Awards and honors
- Premio Miguel de Cervantes (1980)
Uruguay National Literature Prize (1963)
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