Onetti. Juan Carlos Onetti.

Luis Harss, Barbara Dohmann

Onetti, an ardent Arltian [i.e. strongly influenced by the writer Roberto Arlt], belongs to a "lost" generation that came of age around 1940, when the intellectual life of the country was being reassessed against a background of demagoguery and political disenchantment, of totalitarianism in Europe, and nationalism – with pro-Axis sympathies – in Argentina.