This profile of Juan Carlos Onetti aims to recover a principal current of his life based on certain attitudes and episodes that date back to his childhood and extend to his final years.   In these attitudes and episodes one can see a relationship among solitude, reclusion and imagination that explains both certain traits of his personality and fundamental characteristics of his
literature.  

Key words: Juan Carlos Onetti, Biography, Literature.

This study contends that the reading frame for Los adioses (1954) initiates a game of conjectures and interpretations based on doubt and ambiguity. The result of this game is a re-vision of reading and writing in so far as they are intellectual activities. There is a process of "eternal return" to Los adioses, an unrelenting search for clues that the text does not reveal, and thus we engage in constant re-reading and re-writing. In this cyclical beginning, where everything repeats itself but nothing is the same, there is always an attempt to organize the material in a coherent whole so as to reach the potential meanings of the text. In order to do this, we must be mindful of what elements we place at the forefront and which ones at the background of our reading framework.

Key words:Onetti, Los adioses, re-reading, re-writing, fiction theory.

Juan Carlos Onetti’s Los adioses develops a fictional network that puts in game two strategic movements simultaneously. The first is retrospective and relates to writing: one is the narrator, who wants to discover the story of the basketball player, and the other it’s the meaning -the sense- that the narrator gives this story: why he appropriates the narrative material? and why the player is an interesting subject? The second strategic movement refers to reading and the empty of meaning that makes the text, which was crystallized in a particular use of language and in a singular form of access to knowledge: the impossibility of reading the truth.

Key words: Onetti, Los adioses, point of view, Henry James.

The article analyses “Jacob y el otro”, short story by Juan Carlos Onetti according to anthropological tehories of René Girard. Onetti’s universe brims with different aspects of mimetic desire: This means that the relationship between the subject and the object is not direct: there is always a triangular relationship of subject, model, and object. Through the object, one is drawn to the model, whom Girard calls the mediator: it is in fact the model who is sought. My intention is only to comment some aspects of this theory in relation with the main triangle of desire in this story, which it is composed by Jacob, his manager Orsini and his pathetic objective of feeling himself the best wrestler in the World.

Key words: Juan Carlos Onetti, "Jacob y el otro", Desire Mimetic Theory, René Girard, Sport and Literature.

The representation of the suicide in Onetti’s universe dates back to his first texts and will be a constant throughout his work. This article analyzes the different faces that self-inflicted death shows in Juan Carlos Onetti’s fictions, the nuances it introduces in the portrait that the Uruguayan makes of the human being as well as the narrative profitability that he obtains from suicide.

Key words: Juan Carlos Onetti, Literary Representation of Suicide.

This paper analyzes the human failure in Onetti's work as a central theme and basic attitude ubiquitous in his whole work. Onetti's alter ego, who is almost always discovered behind his characters, represents a failed man from River Plate who embodies the existential failure of all human beings. Behind Onetti's stories and characters is every man that entered the stage of maturity and only feels failure in his bones and nostalgia of an irretrievable and useless past. The onettian man becomes, lives and dies on failure as a starting point and as an end. Its heroes, degraded mediocre men, will attempt to escape in vain and get away from failure, changing their lives, creating new ones, imaginary or not. Creative writing, madness and memory are salvation paths that lead to new cycles of failure. This repeated circular process is the same that sinked the onnettian hero in "the pit of human failure" since his first novel, The Pit , published in 1939.

Key words: Onetti, Existencial Failure, Revenge, El pozo.

We live in an age of image and modernity must necessarily pass by it. The cinema and its lenguage are to walk with him almost from the start of his career, writing film chronicles for the daily newspaper Crítica, working for two years in an advertising agency or participating in adapting screenplays. All this is reflected in the way of narration, to build the spaces through which the characters of her stories, especially those written in recent years. It is for instance the short stories: "La mano" and "Los besos".

Key words: Onetti, Film, Literature, Modernity.

Seven letters for a good citizenship.

Key words: Citizenship, Culture, Coexistence.