CRITICISM

Kulin, Katalin. “Juan Carlos Onetti: Behaviorism and Character Drawing.” In The Origins and Originality of American Culture, edited by Tibor Frank, pp. 177-85. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1984.

Comments on the influence of the science of behaviorism on Onetti's development of his characters.

Prego, Omar. “William Faulkner and Juan Carlos Onetti: Revisiting Some Critical Approaches about a Literary Affinity.” Faulkner Journal 11, nos. 1-2 (spring 1996): 139-47.

Explores Faulkner's influence on Onetti's writing and attempts to trace Onetti's reading and subsequent literary use of various Faulkner works.

Shaw, Donald L. “Which was the First Novel of the Boom?” Modern Language Review 89, no. 2 (April 1994): 360-71.

Lists characteristics common to novels of the Latin-American “boom” period, concluding that the boom period began much earlier than generally acknowledged, and the publication of Onetti's La vida breve was a major turning point in the development of the movement.

Additional coverage of Onetti's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, Vol. 3; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 85-88, 145; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 32, 63; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 7, 10; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 113; DISCovering Authors Modules: Multicultural Authors and Novelists; Hispanic Literature Criticism, Ed. 2; Hispanic Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Latin American Writers; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; and Short Story Criticism, Vol. 23.