The magazine Turia will publish "El último viernes" ("The Final Friday"), a hand-written short story by acclaimed Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti, who died in 1994.
The story narrates the meetings and interviews between a journalist and a police officer, and it explores Onetti's common theme of finding truth through fiction and lies.
Onetti's daughter found the story in a thick, unlined notebook. It was likely written in the 1950's, while the author was living in a barrio of Buenos Aires.
Onetti was well known for creating the Faulknerian universe of Santa Maria, a fictional coastal town of Uruguay, and peopling it with his own creations, politics, scandals, and history. Santa Maria first appeared in A Brief Life in 1950.
The one hundredth anniversary of Onetti's birth will occur on July 1.
17 June 2009
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