La vida breve

La vida breve is the novel that introduces Santa Maria, the mythical land in Onettian narrative. Brausen's wife was crippled after a complicated surgery. To make up for the void left by her forgotten caresses, he creates stories. He dreams up Santa Maria and the life of Doctor Diaz Grey. He listens to a conversation between a man and a woman, happening on the other side of a wall, he imagines their gestures, their feelings. He wants to break the barriers of imagination, he wants to become another. Description in Spanish: La vida breve es la novela inaugural de Santa Maria, el territorio mitico de la narrativa onettiana. Su protagonista, Brausen, escucha a traves de una pared una conversacion entre un hombre y una mujer. Imagina sus gestos, sus sentimientos. Brausen vive con su mujer, que una operacion complicada dejo mutilada, y para compensar este vacio fisico que detendra sus caricias, el imagina historias: la de Santa Maria, y la de un medico llamado Diaz Grey. Pero no solo desea im