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A Brief Life (Extraordinary Classics)

A Brief Life (Extraordinary Classics)

by JuanCarlosOnetti (Author), HortenseCarpentier (Translator)

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    Paperback 1993

    $15.81
Synopsis

Brausen is an advertising copywriter in his forties. He leads many lives, some real and some fantastic: he seeks release from himself and from the empirical world he knows, in order to experience a moment of psychic weightlessness - a ?brief life?. True to his creator's vision, he learns that to get out of one's skin is an impossible task, however, the attempt is in itself an act of redemption.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 300
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 15 Feb 1993
ISBN 10: 1852423013
ISBN 13: 9781852423018

Media Reviews
Latin American literature has few secrets to divulge to the English-speaking world; but one of them is the Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti? Gerald Martin, Guardian 'Is The Shipyard a one-off masterpiece? I hope that having reconstituted it for English readers, the translator and publisher will decide to take the rust off the rest of Onetti's works -- John Spurling * Spectator *
Author Bio
Acknowledged as one of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, Juan Carlos Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1909. For many years he worked as a journalist in Buenos Aires. His novels include The Well, No Man's Life, and his best known work, The Shipyard. He was awarded Uruguay's national literature prize in 1963 and Spain's prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1980. He lived in Madrid until his death in 1994.