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SOURCE: Murray, Jack. “Onetti's El Astillero as an Ideological Novel.” Symposium 40, no. 2 (summer 1986): 117-29.
In the following essay, Murray analyzes aspects of El astillero that appear to focus on political and social issues in Onetti's native Uruguay.
El astillero no fue una profecía, ni tampoco un juego en el campito ilimitado de la futurología. Se trataba de la sensación de que algo hedía muy fuerte, no sólo en Uruguay o en Dinamarca. Hoy, el olor aumenta. Es indudable que los embalsamadores llegarán puntuales y que la hedentina será disimulada durante un tiempo.1
Several specialists in Juan Carlos Onetti's works took exception to a review of the 1968 English translation of El astillero in which David Gallagher proposed a possible reading of the novel as the depiction of the collapsed condition of Uruguay. It was true, after all, that the country that had once...
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