"Over a career spanning 50 years, [Juan Carlos] Onetti depicted Uruguay in short stories and novels as a place marked by pettiness, idiocy and squalor " a Gogolian province in the tropics [sic] " and populated by characters who are by and large unhinged. However unflattering, his portrait of his country was one in which […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM on November 6, 2019