All the short stories of Juan Carlos Onetti gathered in a single volume.
The compilation of the short narrative by Juan Carlos Onetti is a unique opportunity to attend to the more succinct production of which many, including García Márquez and Vargas Llosa, consider the renovator of the Spanish-American novel.
From the early approaches to loneliness to the unbearable weight of guilt; from the cruelty inherent in man's nature to the sad tenderness of human relationships; from the most intimate pulses of sexuality to the certainty of an inevitable failure that is everyone's: Onetti's is a complex work that oozes alcohol, tobacco, black suits, poorly knotted ties and dirty sheets. To approach his stories is to approach a world charged with an inexorable pessimism and yet incandescently beautiful.
