by Juan Carlos Onetti · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788466334327
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La vida breve is the novel that introduces Santa María, the mythical land in Onettian narrative. Brausen's wife was crippled after a complicated surgery. To make up for the void left by her forgotten caresses, he creates stories. He dreams up Santa María and the life of Doctor Díaz Grey. He listens to a conversation between a man and a woman, happening on the other side of a wall, he imagines their gestures, their feelings. He wants to break the barriers of imagination, he wants to become another.
Juan Carlos Onetti Borges was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
