This first volume of Juan Carlos Onetti's short novels brings together: The Well (1939), The Goodbye (1954), For a Nameless Tomb (1959), The Face of Misfortune (1960) and Jacob and the Other (1961).With the publication of El Pozo in 1939, Juan Carlos Onetti was printing the first traces of an extraordinary career at the same time that Spanish American literature opened its doors to an unrepeatable voice.This first volume of his Short Novels covers a period of twenty-two years during which the Uruguayan author consolidated and made unmistakable a style perpetrated in works such as those that are gathered here: Los adioses (1954), Para una graves sin nombre ( 1959), The face of misfortune (1960) and Jacob and the other (1961), in addition to his already mentioned narrative debut. Its pages are the bitter fruit of the cloudy but hurtful gaze of eyes facing the very face of existence and the human condition.

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