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La vida breve / A Brief Life
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La vida breve / A Brief Life

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La vida breve es la novela inaugural de Santa Maria, el territorio mitico de la narrativa onettiana. Su protagonista, Brausen, escucha a traves de una pared una conversacion entre un hombre y una mujer. Imagina sus gestos, sus sentimientos… Brausen vive con su mujer, que una operacion complicada dejo mutilada, y para compensar este vacio fisico que detendra sus caricias, el imagina historias: la de Santa Maria, y la de un medico llamado Diaz Grey. Pero no solo desea imaginar que es otro, tambien quiere serlo.
Las novelas y cuentos de Onetti son las piedras de fundacion de nuestra modernidad. A todos sus descendientes nos dio una leccion de inteligencia narrativa, de construccion sabia, de inmenso amor a la imaginacion literaria. CARLOS FUENTES

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La vida breve is the novel that introduces Santa Maria, the mythical land in Onettian narrative. Brausen’s wife was crippled after a complicated surgery. To make up for the void left by her forgotten caresses, he creates stories. He dreams up Santa Maria and the life of Doctor Diaz Grey. He listens to a conversation between a man and a woman, happening on the other side of a wall, he imagines their gestures, their feelings. He wants to break the barriers of imagination, he wants to become another.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Debolsillo
Country
Spain
Date
15 June 2016
Pages
400
ISBN
9788466334327

La vida breve es la novela inaugural de Santa Maria, el territorio mitico de la narrativa onettiana. Su protagonista, Brausen, escucha a traves de una pared una conversacion entre un hombre y una mujer. Imagina sus gestos, sus sentimientos… Brausen vive con su mujer, que una operacion complicada dejo mutilada, y para compensar este vacio fisico que detendra sus caricias, el imagina historias: la de Santa Maria, y la de un medico llamado Diaz Grey. Pero no solo desea imaginar que es otro, tambien quiere serlo.
Las novelas y cuentos de Onetti son las piedras de fundacion de nuestra modernidad. A todos sus descendientes nos dio una leccion de inteligencia narrativa, de construccion sabia, de inmenso amor a la imaginacion literaria. CARLOS FUENTES

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

La vida breve is the novel that introduces Santa Maria, the mythical land in Onettian narrative. Brausen’s wife was crippled after a complicated surgery. To make up for the void left by her forgotten caresses, he creates stories. He dreams up Santa Maria and the life of Doctor Diaz Grey. He listens to a conversation between a man and a woman, happening on the other side of a wall, he imagines their gestures, their feelings. He wants to break the barriers of imagination, he wants to become another.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Debolsillo
Country
Spain
Date
15 June 2016
Pages
400
ISBN
9788466334327