by Juan Carlos Onetti · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466369145
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«La vida breve» is the novel by Juan Carlos Onetti, published by Punto de Lectura in 2007, in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
The novel tells the story of Juan María Brausen, an advertising man who, frustrated with his life, invents an alternative identity as a doctor and pimp in a marginal neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Through this double life, Brausen explores his desires and fantasies and confronts the complexity of the human condition.
La vida breve marks the beginning of Santa María, the mythical territory of Onetti's narrative.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century Latin American literature and in Onetti's narrative.
Juan Carlos Onetti Borges was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories.
