Onetti, Juan Carlos (Vol. 10) - Introduction

Onetti, Juan Carlos 1909–

Onetti is a Uruguayan novelist and short story writer. His concern with the disintegration of language is reflected in his fragmentary style and episodic narrative form. The episodes that constitute Onetti's fiction, especially A Brief Life, are often unrelated fantasies of the narrator, effecting a quality of detached obscurity. (See also CLC, Vol. 7.)