Juan Carlos Onetti Summary

Biography EssayJuan Carlos Onetti, a major novelist and short-story writer in Latin America, achieved international notoriety with the publication of La vida breve (1950; translated as A Brief Life, ... Read more

In the following essay, Adams describes the reading of Onetti's fiction as a “schizophrenic experience” for the reader because of Onetti's technique of fragmenting percepti... Read more

In the following essay, Kadir discusses Onetti's characterization in his fiction in terms of the development of the modern novel, with its focus on the inner lives of both the characters it por... Read more

In the following essay, Luchting analyzes the difference between perception and knowledge in Los Adioses. What greater superstition is there than the mumbo-jumbo of believing in reality? (Chris... Read more

In the following essay, Murray explores Onetti's narrative devices in “Tan Triste como Ella.” It has often been observed that Juan Carlos Onetti's unhappy lot is to repr... Read more

In the following essay, Murray analyzes aspects of El astillero that appear to focus on political and social issues in Onetti's native Uruguay. El astillero no fue una profecía, ni ta... Read more

In the following essay, Maier provides a Freudian interpretation of identity and sexuality in La vida breve. A critical reading of Onetti's La vida breve (1950) reveals the very special valu... Read more

In the following essay, Richards attempts to distinguish between the role of the narrator as a witness-observer and his apparent desire for omnipotence in Los adioses. The fiction of Juan Carlos On... Read more

In the following essay, Lewis explores the influence of Onetti's narrative strategy on his themes in Juntacadáveres. The genius of Latin America's revered contemporary novelist... Read more

In the following essay, Millington discusses masculinity and narrative discourse in “Jacob y el otro.” Introduction The fact that Onetti's writing in ‘Jacob y el otro&#x... Read more

In the following essay, Sullivan attempts to define Onetti's narrative technique in Los adioses. But that was when, without my understanding completely what was happening, I began knowing th... Read more

In the following essay, Lewis examines truth and reality in Onetti's metafictional narratives. Throughout a closely-observed and honored writing career that began in 1933 (Onetti Goodbyes [G... Read more

In the following essay, Olivera-Williams concludes that a gender-based difference exists in the storytelling styles of Onetti and his contemporary Armonía Somers. Estaba también la tr... Read more

In the following essay, Deredita discusses major motifs in Onetti's novellas and short stories. For some twenty years after he published his first work, El pozo (The Well, 1939), Juan Carlos... Read more

In the following excerpt, Adams studies El pozo with the intention of illustrating "how Onetti's artistic manipulation of the schizophrenic experience (or the experience of extreme alien... Read more

Millington is the author of Reading Onetti: Language, Narrative, and the Subject (1985). In the following excerpt, he examines the characterization and function of women in Onetti's fiction. ... Read more

McMurray is an American educator and Critic who has published book-length studies of Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Donoso, and Gabriel García Márquez. In the following excerpt, McMurray offers a f... Read more

Critical Essay by M. Ian Adams Many of [Onetti's works] fall into the territory between novel and short story. The relative complexity of theme and the quantity of subjective elements associat... Read more