Posthumous Onetti story found

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.

Galeano Exposes 5000 Years of History

The Uruguayan author of The Open Veins of Latin America, a 1971 exposé of the United States hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, and Memory of Fire, a 1982-1986 three-volume epic spanning 500 years of colonization, violence, and revolution in the Americas, Eduardo Galeano released Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone on May 25. The vast and fanciful book attempts to examine all of human history in insightful and intimate ways.

From The Washington Post:

Among Latin American literary giants, Gabriel García Márquez is known for mesmerizing, Pablo Neruda for wooing. Mario Vargas Llosa educates. Jorge Luis Borges captivates. Then there is Eduardo Galeano, the galvanizer, firebrand, a writer who tells readers about history that other, more powerful people don't want them to know or understand.