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Chargement... A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onettipar Juan Carlos Onetti
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   lulaa | Feb 25, 2022 |  This was a library copy that I needed to return before I was able to do a complete reading. Juan Carlos Onetti is considered a seminal writer of the South American 20 century, emulated by Cortazar, a contemporary of Borges, and in this edition endorsed with comments by Anonio Munoz Molina (whose Sepharad is a favorite of mine), Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes. This collection spans his career from 1933 to 1987. The Possible Baldi is about a hustler who manipulates a streetwalker as she strolls the streets of Montevideo looking for her next mark. In The Perfect Crime a man kills his cousin whom he owes money to, but his getting away with it becomes a total mess. In A Dream Come True , a mysterious woman hires a down and out theater director to stage a scene from an eerie dream she had. In Back To The South, a nephew relates his uncle's last year. Heartbroken when his younger girlfriend leaves him, the lonely Uncle deteriorates, all the while hoping and imagining he will be reunited. In Jacob And The Other, an untrustworthy promotor, puts on a wrestling match in which he hopes to make a quick hit and then high tail it out of town; the best laid plans of mice and men. These are all entertaining tales, rich with characters who are street wise, looking for their best shot, often to be unfulfilled and disappointed. Onetti, spent most of his life in Montevideo, Buenos Aires and after the military juntas as an émigré in Spain. He captures his place and time, I often recalled the streets of Buenos Aires, its café life, style and mystique. In this context I was often reminded of Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi by H. Bustos Domecq ( a pseudonym for the collaborative writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares). Juan Carlos Onetti a South American maestro, this collection is a great reflection of his career and influence. (  ) berthirsch | Oct 5, 2020 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Mario Vargas Llosa referred to Juan Carlos Onetti as 'one of the great modern writers, not only in Latin America.' A hero to the likes of Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez and a vital forbearer to magical realism, Onetti won the Cervantes Prize in 1980. A Dream Come True, beautifully translated by Katherine Silver, gathers Onetti's entire body of short fiction into English for the first time. Onetti's characters drift untethered, through strange places with unfamiliar people. A woman idles in a beachside hotel during a prolonged convalescence; a grandmother serves café-con-leche to schoolboys resembling her lost grandson. In these mysterious, dream-like stories, everything is gestured at, nothing plainly told. Each offers a brief glimpse into the life of one of Onetti's vast cast of unusual characters, intimately rendering their sorrows, fears, and joys"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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