A Brief Life

First published in 1950, this is a brilliant novel by one of the greats of Latin American literature ";Onetti's novels ar ethe corner stones of our modernity.";€"Carlos Fuentes ";The Graham Greene of Uruguay...foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.";€"Sunday Telegraph ";When you see that someone can write so well, it makes you want to believe that things can't be so bad in this world.";€"Mario Vargas Llosa ";Latin American literature has few secrets to divulge to the English-speaking world; but one of them is the Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti.";€"The Guardian (UK) In A Brief Life, Juan Carlos Onetti's protagonist, Brausen, is caring for his wife after a long illness. To compensate for the physical void which temporarily stalls their caresses, Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbors, a husband and wife, imagining their gestur