New Left Review I/36, March-April 1966
Jorge Onetti
The Phlegm Shed
Jorge Onetti was the 1965 short-story winner of the Cuban Casa de las Americas prize open to writers from all Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America. (A report on the prices, as well as on current developments in Cuban culture, was presented by J. M. Cohen, the only Briton on the five international juries, innlr 34). Born in Buenos Aires in 1931, but Uruguayan by nationality, Onetti studied medicine, which he later gave up, and has subsequently worked at a variety of jobs. His writing was described by the international jury as possessing a ‘technical mastery of the short story manifested in the precision of the situations described, and in the stylistic achievement’. We are grateful to the Casa de las Americas for permission to publish the following story from the prize-winning collection Caulquiercosario.
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