La vida breve (Edicin conmemorativa de la RAE y la ASALE) / A Brief Life (Spanish Edition)

ISBN: 8420477621

Author: Onetti, Juan Carlos

Condition: New

La vida breve es la novela inaugural de Santa Mara, el territorio mtico de la narrativa onettiana.Su protagonista, Brausen, escucha a travs de una pared una conversacin entre un hombre y una mujer. Imagina sus gestos, sus sentimientos... Brausen vive con su mujer, que una operacin complicada dej mutilada, y para compensar este vaci fsico que detendr sus caricias, l imagina historias: la de Santa Mara, y la de un mdico llamado Daz Grey. Pero no slo desea imaginar que es otro, tambin quiere serlo.Las novelas y cuentos de Onetti son las piedras de fundacin de nuestra modernidad. A todos sus descendientes nos dio una leccin de inteligencia narrativa, de construccin sabia, de inmenso amor a la imaginacin literaria. CARLOS FUENTESENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA new commemorative edition offered by the RAE and ASALE on the 30th anniversary of the author's death: the novel that brought modernism to literature written in Spanish language.In La vida breve / A Brief Life, Onetti delves into the power of imagination and writing as salvation, and the interplay between reality and fiction, using the creation of parallel existences as a means of escaping reality. The protagonist attempts to escape his life, marked by a broken marriage and his wife's illness, by giving birth to another fictional self. Some critics consider this the novel that gave birth to the Latin American Boom. In it, Onetti shapes, for the first time, that imaginative realm where his novels unfold: the mythical Santa Mara, one of the richest and best-constructed literary universes, alongside Rulfo's Comala and Garca Mrquez's Macondo.This edition includes supplementary texts from authors such as Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Antonio Muoz Molina, Emir Rodrguez Monegal, Gonzalo Celorio, Hortensia Campanella, and other critics well-versed in Onetti's world.