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008			101104s1976 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a75028197
020			_a9781852429782
050	0	0	_aPZ4.O557 _bBr _a PQ8519.O59
082	0	0	_aLAS FIC ONE
100	1		_aOnetti, Juan Carlos _d(, 1909-1994)
240	1	0	_aVida breve _l. English
245	1	2	_aA brief life _c/ by Juan Carlos Onetti ; translated from the Spanish by Hortense Carpentier
260			_aNew York _b: Grossman Publishers _c, 1976.
300			_aviii, 292 p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_aTranslation of La vida breve.
520			_aUruguayan 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.
700	1		_aCarpentier, Hortense
942			_cLAS
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