Goodbyes and Stories

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—LANIN A. GYUŔKO, ^RQJFE^OR|pF SPANISH, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Juan Carlos Onetti is the most outstandiiig Uruguayan prose writer of our time. Best known for a cycle of novéis about Santa María, an imaginary town on the Río de la Plata, his work bears a strong affiníty to the Yoknapatawpha novéis of William Faulkner, whom he greatly admires. This newly translated collection, Goodbyes and Stories, highlights fiction outside the Santa Maria cycle, giving English-speaking readers access to a much greater range of Onetti/s work.
Goodbyes is one of Onetti's most perfect stories. Full of ambiguity, it explores the curiosîty excited in a small mountain town by the arrivai of a tubercular former basketball player—and the two women who visit him. Daniel Bal-derston's translation of this story was co-winner of the Eugene M. Kay den National Translation Award for 1987.
Nine short stories—"A Dream Come True," "Esbjerg by the Sea," "The House on the Sand," "The Photograph Album," "Hell Most... Tovább

Fülszöveg

—LANIN A. GYUŔKO, ^RQJFE^OR|pF SPANISH, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Juan Carlos Onetti is the most outstandiiig Uruguayan prose writer of our time. Best known for a cycle of novéis about Santa María, an imaginary town on the Río de la Plata, his work bears a strong affiníty to the Yoknapatawpha novéis of William Faulkner, whom he greatly admires. This newly translated collection, Goodbyes and Stories, highlights fiction outside the Santa Maria cycle, giving English-speaking readers access to a much greater range of Onetti/s work.
Goodbyes is one of Onetti's most perfect stories. Full of ambiguity, it explores the curiosîty excited in a small mountain town by the arrivai of a tubercular former basketball player—and the two women who visit him. Daniel Bal-derston's translation of this story was co-winner of the Eugene M. Kay den National Translation Award for 1987.
Nine short stories—"A Dream Come True," "Esbjerg by the Sea," "The House on the Sand," "The Photograph Album," "Hell Most Feared," "The Image of Misfortune/' "Sad as She," "New Year's Eve," and "The Stolen Bride"—^round out the volume. Balderston's introduction situâtes Onetti's writing in its literary and cultural context and relates Goodbyes and t Stories to the rest of the author's work.
Daniel Balderston is associate professor of Spanish at Tulane University.
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