| A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti Contributor(s): Onetti, Juan Carlos (Author), Silver, Katherine (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1939810469 ISBN-13: 9781939810465 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2019033025 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6" W x 7.4" (1.50 lbs) 560 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing. Juan Carlos Onetti's A Dream Come True depicts a sharp, coherent, literary voice, encompassing Onetti's early stages of writing and his later texts. They span from a few pages in Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo to short novellas, like the celebrated detective story The Face of Disgrace and Death and the Girl, an existential masterpiece that explores the complexity of violence and murder in the mythical town of Santa Mar a. His stories create a world of writing which is both universal and highly local, mediating between philosophical characters and the quotidian melodrama of Uruguayan villages. |