The Shipyard

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The Shipyard

work by Onetti

Also known as: “El astillero”

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Juan Carlos Onetti
…major novel, El astillero (1961; The Shipyard), an antihero named Larsen returns to Santa María to try to revive a useless and abandoned shipyard, ending his life in futility and unheroic defeat. The book has been viewed as an ironic allegory reflecting the decay and breakdown of Uruguayan society. The…
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…major novel, El astillero (1961; The Shipyard), an antihero named Larsen returns to Santa María to try to revive a useless and abandoned shipyard, ending his life in futility and unheroic defeat. The book has been viewed as an ironic allegory reflecting the decay and breakdown of Uruguayan society. The…
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Latin American literature
The boom novels
…are Onetti’s El astillero (1961; The Shipyard), a dark tale about a pimp with ambitions; Coronación (1962; Coronation) by Donoso, a sardonic chronicle of the Chilean middle to upper-middle class; Tres tristes tigres (1967; Three Trapped Tigers), by Cabrera Infante, a hilariously funny yet sombre portrayal of Havana on the…
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…are Onetti’s El astillero (1961; The Shipyard), a dark tale about a pimp with ambitions; Coronación (1962; Coronation) by Donoso, a sardonic chronicle of the Chilean middle to upper-middle class; Tres tristes tigres (1967; Three Trapped Tigers), by Cabrera Infante, a hilariously funny yet sombre portrayal of Havana on the…
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