Regresar a la alucinada ciudad de Santa María, emplearse en el astillero de Petrus y enamorar a la hija de éste es para Larsen la última oportunidad de encontrar un sentido. Sin embargo, muy pronto dicha tentativa se convierte en una rigurosa farsa: no hay nada que hacer en un astillero paralizado y en ruinas, ni es posible amar voluntariamente. A pesar de que la vida lo excluye, Larsen continúa impertérrito en su papel, como si no quisiera mirar a la cara a un mundo en vías de extinción, o tal vez porque fingir es la única salida posible contra la locura. «En El astillero Onetti se acerca a un equilibrio casi perfecto, a una economía artística que resulta algo milagrosa.» Mario Benedetti

El astillero

Literature & Fiction

ONETTI,JUAN CARLOS

Literary

Penguin??Books

Goodbyes and Stories (Texas Pan American Series) (English and Spanish Edition)

University of Texas Press

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

A Brief Life (English and Spanish Edition)

Viking Pr

In the provincial Argentine town of Santa Maria, Larsen, a pimp, tries to create the perfect brothel, while Julita, a widow unable to accept the death of her husband, takes his younger brother as her lover

BODYSNATCHERS

Pantheon

Body Snatcher

Vintage

Juan Carlos Onetti, 84 years old and now a Spanish citizen, living in Madrid, is one of the most distinguished and most neglected of Latin American writers. He was born in Montevideo, but takes the idea of being an important Uruguayan author as something short of a compliment, even as a kind of joke. He hasn't sought his neglect, but he has cultivated the neglect he found, made it part of his story. He boasts of failing to get literary prizes in the way other writers casually mention that they've got them. His neglect began early, almost as soon as he was discovered, with his harsh and jagged short story 'El Pozo' ('The Pit'), 1939; and when he did get a major literary prize, the Cervantes, it was in 1978, late enough for the legend of neglect to be maintained.

The Pit & Tonight

Contemporary

Texas Bookman

Translation of: Los Adioses and Para una tumba sin nombre.

Farewells & A Grave With No Name

Quartet

In the provincial Argentine town of Santa Maria, Larsen is offered the job of general manager of Jeremias Petrus Ltd., and given the task of restoring the bankrupt shipyard

The Shipyard (Extraordinary Classics)

United States

Serpent's Tail

“The Graham Greene of Uruguay . . . foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.”—The Sunday Telegraph With all the enthusiasm of a man condemned to be hanged, Larsen takes up his new post. Like the other workers at the shipyard, he routinely goes through the motions. Every so often, his sense of reality is shaken by a tremor of self-deception, and then it is possible to believe that the yard’s glory is not just a thing of the past. 

The Shipyard

Five Star

First published in 1950, this is a brilliant novel by one of the greats of Latin American literature ";Onetti's novels ar ethe corner stones of our modernity.";€”Carlos Fuentes ";The Graham Greene of Uruguay...foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.";€”Sunday Telegraph ";When you see that someone can write so well, it makes you want to believe that things can't be so bad in this world.";€”Mario Vargas Llosa ";Latin American literature has few secrets to divulge to the English-speaking world; but one of them is the Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti.";€”The Guardian (UK) In A Brief Life, Juan Carlos Onetti's protagonist, Brausen, is caring for his wife after a long illness. To compensate for the physical void which temporarily stalls their caresses, Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbors, a husband and wife, imagining their gestur

A Brief Life

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