Onetti

[ oh-net-ee; Spanish aw-ne-tee ]

noun

1. Juan Car·los [wahn , kahr, -lohs, -l, uh, s, hwahn , kahr, -laws], 1909–94, Uruguayan novelist and short-story writer.

Example Sentences

He is more interested in deep dives into little-known authors such as Juan Carlos Onetti, whose collected stories he reviewed for Harper’s in January.

From New York Times

Admired by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, Onetti, a Uruguayan who fled his country’s repressive regime in the 1970s, ushered Spanish-language fiction into the modern era.

From New York Times

“Listlessness is his great theme,” Ratik Asokan writes, reviewing the book, “and it gives his stories their unusual shape. Rather than dramatize events, Onetti shows people recalling and reflecting on the nonevents of their lives, or, more usually, the lives of others, trying to give them meaning and glamour.”

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In a nice touch, a statue of Brausen, the city “founder,” appears in Santa María in Onetti’s later work, though it’s not clear who erected it.

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Though all but two of his novels have made it into English and generally received good reviews, Onetti has not caught on in the Anglophone world, unlike his disciples, such as Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes.

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