by Juan Carlos Onetti · Anaya & Mario Muchnik · tapa dura · ISBN 9788479792336
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«La vida breve» is the novel by Juan Carlos Onetti, published by Anaya & Mario Muchnik in hardback (398 pages, in Spanish).
Brausen, a frustrated advertising man, listens through the walls of his apartment to a neighbour's conversation and begins to imagine other lives, building a fictional city, Santa María. While waiting for inspiration for a script commissioned by Stein, he splits into characters such as Arce or the doctor Díaz Grey in search of refuge from an oppressive reality.
Novel originally published in 1950, edited by Sonia Mattalía, in the Escritores de América collection.
For readers of literary fiction and classics of twentieth-century Latin American literature.
Juan Carlos Onetti Borges was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
