by Juan Carlos Onetti · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423994977
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«Dejemos hablar al viento» is the novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, published by FisicalBook in paperback (246 pages, in Spanish).
Medina, one of the author's archetypal characters, works as a frustrated doctor, painter and police chief in Lavanda, across the river from Santa María, a city from which he is excluded and which he dreams of destroying. The novel portrays his decline amid idleness, alcohol and a prostitute who symbolically embodies the human condition subjected to failure and desolation.
Originally published in 1979, it was Onetti's first novel written in exile in Spain and received the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana.
For readers of Latin American fiction interested in the fictional universe of Santa María and in Onetti's work.
Juan Carlos Onetti Borges was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
