El pozo
by Juan Carlos Onetti
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La primera de las grandes obras de un autor imprescindible, considerada por Mario Vargas Llosa como la primera novela moderna de Hispanoamérica. Eladio Linacero, un antihéroe existencial, agotado por su toma de conciencia del envilecimiento de la existencia humana y de la inutilidad de todo intento de comunicación, intenta liberarse de su tedio cotidiano a través de la ficción... La escritura de un sueño ubicado en Canadá es la válvula de escape que le permite construir una nueva show more realidad a su medida porque el protagonista busca «hacer algo distinto. Algo mejor que las cosas que me sucedieron. Me gustaría escribir la historia de un alma, de ella sola, sin los sucesos en que tuvo que mezclarse...». ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The first of the great works by an essential author, considered by Mario Vargas Llosa as the first modern Latin American novel. Eladio Linacero, an existential antihero, is run down by his realization of the degeneration of human existence and the uselessness of all attempts at communication. He tries to free himself from his daily tedium through fiction... Writing about a dream set in Canada is the escape route that lets him construct a new reality of his own design, as the protagonist attempts to "do something different. Something better than the things that happened to me. I would like to write the story of an unfettered soul, without the circumstances which ended up ensnaring him." show lessTags
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Onetti's subject is the decay and materialism of the modern world, but he presents it in a dense, indirect prose style that creates a world often bordering on nightmare. The narrator of A Brief Life (1950) creates a number of other existences for himself to escape the boredom and limits, symbolized by his wife's mastectomy, of his own. Ultimately, show more the created worlds take over supposed reality. The Shipyard (1961), generally considered his best novel, demonstrates the central character's inability to control his life in an absurd existence. Onetti's characters never cease trying to create meaning, but they flounder helplessly in a world that is beyond their efforts at control. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- El pozo
- Original title
- El pozo
- Alternate titles*
- De put en andere verhalen
- Original publication date
- 1979
- People/Characters
- Eladio Linacero
- Important places*
- Uruguay
- First words
- Poco fa stavo camminando per la stanza e di colpo mi è venuto in mente che la vedevo per la prima volta.
- Quotations
- Ho smesso di scrivere per accendere la luce e riposare gli occhi che mi bruciavano. Dev’essere il caldo. Ma oggi voglio qualcosa di diverso. Qualcosa di meglio della storia di quel che mi è successo. Mi piacerebbe scrivere... (show all) la storia di un’anima, di lei sola, senza gli avvenimenti con cui, volente o nolente, ha dovuto mescolarsi.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Mi butto sul letto, infreddolito, morto di stanchezza, cercando di addormentarmi prima che arrivi il mattino, senza più forze per aspettare il corpo umido della ragazza nella vecchia capanna di tronchi.
- Original language
- Spagnolo
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.0000 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type
- LCC
- PQ8519 .O59 .P6 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
- BISAC
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- 6 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
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