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Let the wind speak / Juan Carlos Onetti, [translated by Helen Lane]

By:

Onetti, Juan Carlos, (, 1909-1994)

Contributor(s):

Lane, Helen

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: London : Serpent´s Tail , 2008, c1979Edition: 1st paperback edDescription: 279 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781852429799

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC ONE

LOC classification:

DT1949.M35 A3 1994

Summary: 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.

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Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC ONE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011432

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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.

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