by Juan Carlos Onetti · RAE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420477626
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La vida breve is a novel by the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, first published in 1950. This commemorative edition of the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language includes supplementary texts by authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa and Antonio Muñoz Molina. The novel explores themes such as identity, imagination, and reality through the story of Brausen, a man who escapes from his life by creating parallel existences. Considered by some critics as the novel that gave rise to the Latin American Boom, La vida breve is a fundamental work of literature in Spanish.
Juan Carlos Onetti Borges was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
