Onetti. Juan Carlos Onetti.

M. Ian Adams

Juan Carlos Onetti has been a prolific author and an important one. His first publication, El pozo, in December of 1939, marked a new stage in Uruguayan literature. Angel Rama describes the cultural background of Onetti and El pozo: "From 1938 to 1940 a fracture occurs in Uruguayan culture that opens, through the course of a new interpretation of ethical and artistic values, a creative period that, after intense struggle, will control the intellectual life of the country.