A Dream Come True

<b><i>A Dream Come True </i>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.</b><br><br>Juan Carlos Onetti's <i>A Dream Come True </i>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 Mar&#237;a. 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.