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El astillero [Próxima aparición]

El astillero [Próxima aparición]

ClassicsLiterary Fiction
Pages
240
Published
2002
Language
Spanish

Synopsis

Juntacadáveres, a man with a dubious past, returns to the decaying port town of Santa María with a grand, perhaps delusional, plan to revive a defunct shipyard. He attempts to establish a brothel, drawing a cast of desperate and disillusioned characters into his orbit. As his ambitious project unfolds, the lines between reality and illusion blur, revealing the profound loneliness and futility of human endeavors.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MelancholicDarkPhilosophical
Unreliable NarratorMorally Grey

Genres

Classics Literary Fiction

About the author

J
Juan Carlos Onetti

Juan Carlos Onetti (Montevideo, 1 July 1909 – Madrid, 30 May 1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and short-story writer, and a senior figure of Uruguay's Generación del 45. Largely self-taught, he published the novella El pozo in 1939; its fusion of reality and fantasy is often placed among the first distinctly modern Spanish American novels. Much of his later work belongs to the saga of Santa María, an invented town that recurs across his fiction and is the setting of El astillero (1961), in which t...