Juan Carlos Onetti is the great solitary figure in modern Latin American literature, one of the key writers of the 20th century, an author of artistic, aesthetic, and moral uncompromisingness. In thoroughly revised translations, some of which are published in German for the first time, this collected works edition offers all of Onetti's completed novels and stories, along with notes and afterwords by the editors. It begins with his rough debut, The Pit, from 1939 - an inexhaustible text that can be read anew time and again. Additionally, Volume 1 of the collected works includes the two early novels that have never before appeared in German: No Man's Land (1941) and For This Night (1943). Volume 2 of the collected works gathers three novels: The Short Life, published in 1950, established Onetti's fame: a challenging, equally fascinating and harsh piece of literature. Even more strongly, it...