SOURCE: "Juan Carlos Onetti: Alienation and the Fragmented Image," in Three Authors of Alienation: Bombai, Onetti, Carpentier, University of Texas Press, 1975, pp. 38-80.

In the following excerpt, Adams studies El pozo with the intention of illustrating "how Onetti's artistic manipulation of the schizophrenic experience (or the experience of extreme alienation) produces a unique imagery and an unusual sensation for the reader of participation in an alienated world. "

In addition to writing novels, Onetti has been a productive short-story writer. Un sueño realizado y otros cuentos was published in 1951. Another collection, El infierno tan temido y otros cuentos, came out in 1962. All of these are in Cuentos completos, published in 1967. Mario Benedetti has described the nature of Onetti's stories compared to his novels: "Onetti's stories show, as soon as they are compared to his novels, two notable differences: the obligatory restriction of material, which simplifies its dramatism, affirming...