Name: Dejemos Hablar Al Viento (in Spanish)
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Author: Juan Carlos Onetti
ISBN: 9788466334280

portada Dejemos Hablar Al Viento (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Carlos Onetti

Publisher

Debolsillo

Collection

Contemporánea

Year

2016

Language

Spanish

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.00 x 12.50

ISBN13

9788466334280

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Dejemos Hablar Al Viento (in Spanish)"

Dejemos hablar al viento es la última novela del ciclo que Juan Carlos Onetti dedicó a los agónicos habitantes de la ciudad de Santa María.

Dejemos hablar al viento cuenta la historia de Medina, hombre frustrado que decide marcharse a otro lugar para retomar sus verdaderas vocaciones: las de médico y pintor. Protegido por una prostituta, enseguida descubre que su nueva vida no es más que la triste parodia de un sueño imposible. Jamás será un buen pintor, y su dedicación a la medicina se reduce a ejercer las tareas de un enfermero.

Herido de muerte, Medina vuelve al lugar que ha sido su condena, Santa María, donde ejercerá de comisario; mero pasatiempo de lo que en verdad le ocupará a partir de ahora: su propia destrucción.

Julio Cortázar dijo sobre Dejemos hablar al viento y Juan Carlos Onetti...
«Una vez más encontré aquí todo lo que te hace diferente y único entre nosotros.»

Juan Carlos Onetti

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Juan Carlos Onetti was one of the greatest Uruguayan writers and journalists. After growing up in an environment where he did not finish high school and had to work in various jobs, Onetti traveled to Buenos Aires in 1930, upon marrying his first wife. Once in Argentina, he began to publish film reviews and collaborate in magazines.

After his divorce, Onetti returns to Uruguay, although he travels regularly to Argentina, where he maintains good relations. During these years, Onetti never stops writing despite not finding facilities to publish. In 1936, he unsuccessfully tried to enlist in the International Brigades to participate in the Spanish Civil War.

From 1939, he began working for the Marcha magazine and published his first book, El pozo (1939). In 1941, he joined the Reuters Agency and in 1950 published La vida breve, considered his best novel, a foundational book of Santa María.

In 1975, he decided to settle in Madrid, distancing himself from the military dictatorship established in Uruguay. He continues writing and in 1980 is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. That same year, he receives the highest accolade in Hispanic letters: the Cervantes Prize. He also garnered other awards, such as the National Literature Prize of Uruguay or the Narrative Criticism Prize.

In 1993, his last novel was published: Cuando ya no importe, in which he closes the universe created around Santa María.

Onetti died in Madrid in 1994.

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