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Onetti, Juan Carlos - Wolfgang Luchting (essay date 1981)
Wolfgang Luchting (essay date 1981)
SOURCE: Luchting, Wolfgang. “Esse No Longer Est Percipi? The Sad Fate of Epistemology in Los Adioses by J. C. Onetti.” Selecta (1981): 116-19.
[In the following essay, Luchting analyzes the difference between perception and knowledge in Los Adioses.]
What greater superstition is there than the mumbo-jumbo of believing in reality?
(Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning, Act II)
First the plot: “Un hombre [tuberculoso] llega a una ciudad … donde hacen su cura los tuberculosos … se niega a asimilarse. … Vive sólo para las dos cartas [de tipo diferente cada uno] que llegan regularmente. … Un día llega la mujer, autora de una serie de [las cartas]. … Otro día, distinto, llega la de [la otra serie]. … Para ella, el hombre ha alquilado un chalet. Con la primera mujer, el hombre vive en el hotel....
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