Juan Carlos Onetti (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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“Los niños en el bosque,” one of Juan Carlos Onetti’s unpublished novels, dates from 1936. “Tiempo de abrazar,” a novel written in 1933 and circulated in manuscript form among Onetti’s friends, was not published, despite the praise it received from respected writers such as Roberto Arlt. The manuscript was entered in the contest for the Rinehart and Farrar Prize in 1941. After coming in second, it disappeared, except for a number of fragments, which were published in various journals over the years. In 1974, the Uruguayan critic Jorge...

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