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La vida breve

Written in 1950, A Brief Life is the first novel to feature Onetti's mythical town of Santa Maria. His protagonist Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbours, a husband and wife, imagining their gestures, their expressions. Brausen lives with his wife, who has undergone major surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer. To compensate for this physical void which stalls their caresses, Brausen imagines stories: of Santa Maria, and of a doctor named Diaz Grey. But he not only wishes to imagine himself as someone else, he also seeks release from himself and from the world he knows. He leads many lives, some real and some fantastic, in order to experience a moment of psychic weightlessness - a "brief life."

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  • "Written in 1950, A Brief Life is the first novel to feature Onetti's mythical town of Santa Maria. Brausen lives with his wife who has undergone major breast cancer surgery. To compensate for his physical void Brausen imagines stories of Santa Maria and of a doctor named Diaz Grey."
  • "A dissatisfied advertising copywriter in his forties discards his personal possessions, history, and rational consciousness and indulges in fantasy after fantasy in search of one moment of psychic weightlessness."
  • "Belletristik : Uruguay ; Roman."
  • "Een zich door het bestaan voortslepende man verzint in een armetierig vertrek andere levens om zijn eigen leven binnen de grenzen van het leefbare te houden."
  • "L'expression d'un pessimisme farouche mais aussi une oeuvre dont l'intérêt littéraire est plus qu'évident."
  • "Written in 1950, A Brief Life is the first novel to feature Onetti's mythical town of Santa Maria. His protagonist Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbours, a husband and wife, imagining their gestures, their expressions. Brausen lives with his wife, who has undergone major surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer. To compensate for this physical void which stalls their caresses, Brausen imagines stories: of Santa Maria, and of a doctor named Diaz Grey. But he not only wishes to imagine himself as someone else, he also seeks release from himself and from the world he knows. He leads many lives, some real and some fantastic, in order to experience a moment of psychic weightlessness - a "brief life.""@en
  • "A man in his forties seeks his "essential being" by divesting himself of history, destiny, and even, at last, his own imagination."@en

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  • "Translations"
  • "Powieść urugwajska"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"

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  • "La vita breve : romanzo"
  • "La vita breve : romanzo"@it
  • "Ä vida breve"
  • "La vita breve"
  • "La vita breve"@it
  • "La Vida breve"
  • "La Vida breve"@ca
  • "Krótkie życie"@pl
  • "La vida breve [Novela]"
  • "A Brief Life"
  • "La vida breve"@es
  • "La vida breve"
  • "La vida breve"@en
  • "ˆLa‰ vida breve"
  • "La vida breve. [Novela]"
  • "La vida breve : [Novela]"
  • "La vie brève : roman"
  • "Das kurze Leben : Roman"
  • "La Vita breve : romanzo"
  • "La Fiancée volée : nouvelles"
  • "Das kurze leben roman"
  • "La Vie brève. [La vida breve.] Roman"
  • "Das kurze Leben Roman"
  • "Het korte leven : roman"
  • "A vida breve"
  • "Het korte leven"
  • "Das kurze Leben. Abschiede [u.a.] [EST: Los adioses <dt.>]"
  • "A brief life"
  • "La fiancée volée : nouvelles"
  • "Vida breve"
  • "Das kurze leben"
  • "La Vie brève : roman"
  • "Ē syntomē zōē : mythistorēma"
  • "A brief life"@en
  • "A brief life"
  • "Das kurze Leben : [Roman]"
  • "Das kurze Leben ; Abschiede ; Für ein Grab ohne Namen"

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