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Confesiones de un lector
A lo largo de su vida Juan Carlos Onetti generó una obra que incluye novelas, cuentos, textos apócrifos y también numerosos artículos desperdigados por la Prensa que por primera vez se encuentran reunidos en este volumen. Los apasionados lectores de Onetti conocen la intensidad de su escritura. Saborean esa rara calidad que actúa como una pasión reveladora de su obra de ficción.
Convencido de que literatura y periodismo eran mundos diferentes, Onetti supo valorar la realidad inmediata combinando el análisis con el libre pensamiento. Su compromiso literario se vierte en sus artículos con mayor y más escéptica exigencia que en ningún otro escritor actual. Por eso los lectores de Onetti recibirán estas Confesiones de un lector como un homenaje al que fue gran autor, gran hombre y testigo directo de la vida, responsable únicamente ante su escritura y ante su alma.
Convencido de que literatura y periodismo eran mundos diferentes, Onetti supo valorar la realidad inmediata combinando el análisis con el libre pensamiento. Su compromiso literario se vierte en sus artículos con mayor y más escéptica exigencia que en ningún otro escritor actual. Por eso los lectores de Onetti recibirán estas Confesiones de un lector como un homenaje al que fue gran autor, gran hombre y testigo directo de la vida, responsable únicamente ante su escritura y ante su alma.
360 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
About the author
Juan Carlos Onetti
134 books399 followersJuan Carlos Onetti (July 1, 1909, Montevideo – May 30, 1994, Madrid) was an Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
A high school drop-out, Onetti's first novel, El pozo, published in 1939, met with his close friends' immediate acclaim, as well as from some writers and journalists of his time. 500 copies of the book were printed, most of them left to rot at the only bookstore that sold it, Barreiro (the book was not reprinted until the 60's, with an introduction and preliminary study by Ángel Rama). Aged 30, Onetti was already working as editing secretary of the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha. He had lived for some years in Buenos Aires, where he published short stories and wrote cinema critiques for the local media, and met and befriended the notorious novelist and journalist, Roberto Arlt ("El juguete rabioso", "Los siete locos", "Los lanzallamas").
He went on to become one of Latin America's most distinguished writers, earning Uruguay's National Prize in literature in 1962. In 1974, he and some of his colleagues were imprisoned by the military dictatorship. Their crime: as members of the jury, they had chosen Nelson Marra's short story El guardaespaldas (i.e. "The bodyguard") as the winner of Marcha's annual literary contest. Due to a series of misunderstandings (and the need to fill some space in the following day's edition), El guardaespaldas was published in Marcha, although it had been widely agreed among them that they shouldn't and wouldn't do so, knowing this would be the perfect excuse for the military to intervene Marcha, considering the subject of the story (the interior monologue of a top-rank military officer who recounts his murders and atrocious behavior, much as it was happening with the functioning regime).
Onetti left his native country (and his much-loved city of Montevideo) after being imprisoned for 6 months in Colonia Etchepare, a mental institution. A long list of world-famous writers -including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Mario Benedetti - signed open letters addressed to the military government of Uruguay, which was unaware of the talented (and completely harmless) writer it had imprisoned and humiliated.
As soon as he was released, Onetti fled to Spain with his wife, violin player Dorotea Mühr. There he continued his career as a writer, being awarded the most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, the Premio Cervantes. He remained in Madrid until his death in 1994. He is interred in the Cementerio de la Almudena in Madrid.
A high school drop-out, Onetti's first novel, El pozo, published in 1939, met with his close friends' immediate acclaim, as well as from some writers and journalists of his time. 500 copies of the book were printed, most of them left to rot at the only bookstore that sold it, Barreiro (the book was not reprinted until the 60's, with an introduction and preliminary study by Ángel Rama). Aged 30, Onetti was already working as editing secretary of the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha. He had lived for some years in Buenos Aires, where he published short stories and wrote cinema critiques for the local media, and met and befriended the notorious novelist and journalist, Roberto Arlt ("El juguete rabioso", "Los siete locos", "Los lanzallamas").
He went on to become one of Latin America's most distinguished writers, earning Uruguay's National Prize in literature in 1962. In 1974, he and some of his colleagues were imprisoned by the military dictatorship. Their crime: as members of the jury, they had chosen Nelson Marra's short story El guardaespaldas (i.e. "The bodyguard") as the winner of Marcha's annual literary contest. Due to a series of misunderstandings (and the need to fill some space in the following day's edition), El guardaespaldas was published in Marcha, although it had been widely agreed among them that they shouldn't and wouldn't do so, knowing this would be the perfect excuse for the military to intervene Marcha, considering the subject of the story (the interior monologue of a top-rank military officer who recounts his murders and atrocious behavior, much as it was happening with the functioning regime).
Onetti left his native country (and his much-loved city of Montevideo) after being imprisoned for 6 months in Colonia Etchepare, a mental institution. A long list of world-famous writers -including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Mario Benedetti - signed open letters addressed to the military government of Uruguay, which was unaware of the talented (and completely harmless) writer it had imprisoned and humiliated.
As soon as he was released, Onetti fled to Spain with his wife, violin player Dorotea Mühr. There he continued his career as a writer, being awarded the most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, the Premio Cervantes. He remained in Madrid until his death in 1994. He is interred in the Cementerio de la Almudena in Madrid.
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April 21, 2017
Préstamo Biblioteca.
1. Necesito este libro en mi biblioteca, imprescindible.
2. Este libro es una recopilación de la obra periodística en España de Juan Carlos Onetti en sus años de exilio y es una obra póstuma. No hay manera para describir los cortos textos que contiene, pero que al igual que Ribeyro, logra impresionar al lector con sus formas, su honestidad en su crítica y su humor ácido. En lo personal me encontré en un dialogo incesante en el que vi que teníamos ideas afines, un profundo respeto por ciertos autores.
3. Debo leer más obras de Onettí porque este es el primer libro que leo del autor.
4. Recomendado.
1. Necesito este libro en mi biblioteca, imprescindible.
2. Este libro es una recopilación de la obra periodística en España de Juan Carlos Onetti en sus años de exilio y es una obra póstuma. No hay manera para describir los cortos textos que contiene, pero que al igual que Ribeyro, logra impresionar al lector con sus formas, su honestidad en su crítica y su humor ácido. En lo personal me encontré en un dialogo incesante en el que vi que teníamos ideas afines, un profundo respeto por ciertos autores.
3. Debo leer más obras de Onettí porque este es el primer libro que leo del autor.
4. Recomendado.
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