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MARTINEZ MILANTCHI, José Darío. Juan Carlos Onetti and inertia: creation, labor, and marriage in a repetitive world. Humanidades (Montevideo. En línea) [online]. 2024, n.16, e163.  Epub 01-Dic-2024. ISSN 1510-5024.  https://doi.org/10.25185/16.3.

This article examines repetition in the narrative texts of Juan Carlos Onetti that take place in the fictional city of Santa María. Adopting a panoramic but detailed view of several novels, the analysis focuses on how repetition empties the meaning of three anchors of identity and guarantors of meaning: literary creation, labor, and conjugal relationships. By removing any linear or progressive meaning, the repetitions create versions of writing, labor, and marriage that reveal a void rather than filling it. The universe of Santa María is redundant by nature, but that redundancy nullifies the myths that seek to prevent the individual from facing reality

Palabras clave : Onetti; Repetition; Inertia; Metanarrative; Work; Marriage.

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