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A Brief Life

Juan Carlos Onetti

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1950
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 300

A Buenos Aires copywriter, his marriage collapsing after his wife's illness, invents a second life, an imaginary town and a rougher alter ego who takes up with the woman next door, until he can no longer tell which life is his.

A man will accomplish nothing if he does not forget himself.
A Brief Life, Juan Carlos Onetti

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