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A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

`A Dream Come True` collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America’™s greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing.Juan Carlos Onetti’™s `A Dream Come True` depicts a sharp, coherent, literary voice, encompassing Onetti’™s early stages of writing and his later texts. They span from a few pages in `Avenida de Mayo ‘“ Diagonal ‘“ Avenida de Mayo` to short novellas, like the celebrated detective story `The Face of Disgrace` and `Death and the Girl,` an existential masterpiece that explores the complexity of violence and murder in the mythical town of Santa Marรญa. His stories create a world of writing which is both universal and highly local, mediating between philosophical characters and the quotidian melodrama of Uruguayan villages.