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A brief life / by Juan Carlos Onetti ; translated from the Spanish by Hortense Carpentier

By:

Onetti, Juan Carlos, (, 1909-1994)

Contributor(s):

Carpentier, Hortense

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Grossman Publishers , 1976.Description: viii, 292 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781852429782

Uniform titles:

Vida breve . English

DDC classification:

LAS FIC ONE

LOC classification:

PZ4.O557 Br PQ8519.O59

Summary: Uruguayan writer Juan Maria Brausen interprets his name as three words mechanically strung together by his father so that the trivialities he has inherited would be repeated after him. Brausen's wife, Gertrudis, has undergone a mastectomy, and although he misses making love to her, he is incapable of empathy regarding her new condition. In fact, the sight of her scar so repulses him that he begins to flit between reality and fantasy. Through paper-thin walls, he eavesdrops on his neighbors' sexual trysts, mentally inserting himself in their world and imagining a new character, an enema-giving Dr. Diaz Grey, in the make-believe town of Santa Maria. Scenes are re-created endlessly in the hopes of getting them just right for the film script Brausen is destined never to finish.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC ONE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		026863

Translation of La vida breve.

Uruguayan writer Juan Maria Brausen interprets his name as three words mechanically strung together by his father so that the trivialities he has inherited would be repeated after him. Brausen's wife, Gertrudis, has undergone a mastectomy, and although he misses making love to her, he is incapable of empathy regarding her new condition. In fact, the sight of her scar so repulses him that he begins to flit between reality and fantasy. Through paper-thin walls, he eavesdrops on his neighbors' sexual trysts, mentally inserting himself in their world and imagining a new character, an enema-giving Dr. Diaz Grey, in the make-believe town of Santa Maria. Scenes are re-created endlessly in the hopes of getting them just right for the film script Brausen is destined never to finish.

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