A Brief Life by Juan Carlos Onetti

Juan Carlos Onetti's A Brief Life is a fairly impenetrable novel that offers the reader few rewards. The novel flips between its unlikeable anti-hero, Brausen, and his creation, the nondescript Diaz Grey. Even when the novel is being narrated by one of its characters, the reader is left with few insights. Contrary to its title, the novel is far from brief, and could have benefited from some hefty edits in Onetti's day. There are a few set piece scenes, such as Grey's initial encounter with Elena, but these are few and far between, and ruminated upon endlessly. God knows what the film script Onetti was working upon would turn out like. There are a few other set piece scenes, which seem to serve very little function beyond their initial effect. I did re-read A Brief Life, in an effort to be fair to the novel, but I still hated it.

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