El pozo / The Well - Juan Carlos Onetti

La primera de las grandes obras de un autor imprescindible, considerada por Mario Vargas Llosa como la primera novela moderna de Hispanoamrica. Eladio Linacero, un antihroe existencial, agotado por su toma de conciencia del envilecimiento de la existencia humana y de la inutilidad de todo intento de comunicacin, intenta liberarse de su tedio cotidiano a travs de la ficcin... La escritura de un sueo ubicado en Canad es la vlvula de escape que le permite construir una nueva realidad a su medida porque el protagonista busca hacer algo distinto. Algo mejor que las cosas que me sucedieron. Me gustara escribir la historia de un alma, de ella sola, sin los sucesos en que tuvo que mezclarse.... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The first of the great works by an essential author, considered by Mario Vargas Llosa as the first modern Latin American novel. Eladio Linacero, an existential antihero, is run down by his realization of the degeneration of human existence and the uselessness of all attempts at communication. He tries to free himself from his daily tedium through fiction? Writing about a dream set in Canada is the escape route that lets him construct a new reality of his own design, as the protagonist attempts to ?do something different. Something better than the things that happened to me. I would like to write the story of an unfettered soul, without the circumstances which ended up ensnaring him.”