Let the wind speak
Onetti, Juan Carlos (, 1909-1994)
Let the wind speak / Juan Carlos Onetti, [translated by Helen Lane] - 1st paperback ed. - London : Serpent´s Tail , 2008, c1979 - 279 p. ; 20 cm.
This translation originally published: 1996.
The archetypal Onetti hero, Medina is at different times of his life a (phoney) doctor, a painter and a police chief. He lives in Lavanda, across the river from Santa Maria, a town he is not allowed to enter and that he, therefore, wishes to destroy. In the end the wind speaks with devastating effect. The first novel written in exile in Spain, Let the Wind Speak is Onetti coming to terms with his exclusion from the Santa Maria of his childhood, his first sexual conquests, his first cigarettes, his first double whiskeys. A lover's bitter lament - it ends in the destruction of the object of adoration.
Translated from the Spanish.
9781852429799
94079980
Alienation (Social psychology)----Fiction
Anti-apartheid Movements---History---South Africa
South Africa----Politics and government----1948-
DT1949.M35 / A3 1994
LAS FIC ONE
Let the wind speak / Juan Carlos Onetti, [translated by Helen Lane] - 1st paperback ed. - London : Serpent´s Tail , 2008, c1979 - 279 p. ; 20 cm.
This translation originally published: 1996.
The archetypal Onetti hero, Medina is at different times of his life a (phoney) doctor, a painter and a police chief. He lives in Lavanda, across the river from Santa Maria, a town he is not allowed to enter and that he, therefore, wishes to destroy. In the end the wind speaks with devastating effect. The first novel written in exile in Spain, Let the Wind Speak is Onetti coming to terms with his exclusion from the Santa Maria of his childhood, his first sexual conquests, his first cigarettes, his first double whiskeys. A lover's bitter lament - it ends in the destruction of the object of adoration.
Translated from the Spanish.
9781852429799
94079980
Alienation (Social psychology)----Fiction
Anti-apartheid Movements---History---South Africa
South Africa----Politics and government----1948-
DT1949.M35 / A3 1994
LAS FIC ONE
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