Juan Carlos Onetti | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Juan Carlos Onetti.

Juan Carlos Onetti | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Juan Carlos Onetti.
This section contains 2,886 words
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SOURCE: Luchting, Wolfgang. “Esse No Longer Est Percipi? The Sad Fate of Epistemology in Los Adioses by J. C. Onetti.” Selecta (1981): 116-19.

In the following essay, Luchting analyzes the difference between perception and knowledge in Los Adioses.

What greater superstition is there than the mumbo-jumbo of believing in reality?

(Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning, Act II)

First the plot: “Un hombre [tuberculoso] llega a una ciudad … donde hacen su cura los tuberculosos … se niega a asimilarse. … Vive sólo para las dos cartas [de tipo diferente cada uno] que llegan regularmente. … Un día llega la mujer, autora de una serie de [las cartas]. … Otro día, distinto, llega la de [la otra serie]. … Para ella, el hombre ha alquilado un chalet. Con la primera mujer, el hombre vive en el hotel. …”1

Primarily an almacenero, a mucama, and an enfermero, later others and, finally, the whole...

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