Confinement and liberation spaces in Onetti’s A brief life
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- Aaron Lubelski
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Abstract
The narrative of the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti is set primarily within an urban environment that refers to the Río de la Plata area. It is in the interior spaces of that environment where the existential drama of the plot characters takes on its maximum intensity. The city’s living, social and work spaces are witnesses of their frustrations, the lack of faith and the impossibility of establishing a stable affective life, in opposition to the external environment that suggests an eventual liberation and the achievement of an ephemeral happiness. This article analyzes the configuration of these internal spaces and their interaction with the characters’ human drama, in one of the author's most accomplished novel: A brief life.
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