A Dream Come True - The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing. Juan Carlos Onetti's A Dream Come True depicts a sharp, coherent, literary voice, encompassing Onetti's early stages of writing and his later texts. They span from a few pages in "Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo" to short novellas, like the celebrated detective story "The Face of Disgrace" and "Death and the Girl," an existential masterpiece that explores the complexity of violence and murder in the mythical town of Santa María. His stories create a world of writing which is both universal and highly local, mediating between philosophical characters and the quotidian melodrama of Uruguayan villages.

Product details

• Authors: Juan Carlos Onetti, Katherine Silver
• Assisted by: Katherine Silver (Translation)
• Publisher: Steerforth press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781939810465
• ISBN: 978-1-939810-46-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 191 mm x 41 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Uruguayische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)