I. Do not look to be original. Being different is inevitable when one does not care to be.
II. Do not try to dazzle the bourgeois. It is no longer. It just gets scared when they threaten his pocket.
III. Do not try to complicate the reader, nor to seek or assert your help.
IV. Do not write ever thinking critically about friends or relatives, the sweet girlfriend or wife. Not even in the hypothetical reader.
V. Do not sacrifice anything literary sincerity. Neither politics nor to win. Always write for this other, silent and implacable, within us and not be fooled.
VI. Do not follow fads, renounced the sacred teacher before the third crowing of the cock.
VII. Do not just read the books already established. Proust and Joyce were despised when they stick their noses, today are geniuses.
VIII. Do not forget the sentence justly famous: 2 plus two equals four, but what if you were 5?
IX. No issues with strange narrative disdain, whatever their origin. Robert, if necessary.
X. Always lie.
XI. Do not forget that Hemingway wrote: "Even gave readings of the pieces ready for my novel, which becomes the lowest in which a writer can fall. "
Juan Carlos Onetti (1908-1998). Uruguayan writer English citizen.
is one of the greatest figures of the narrative in Uruguay and also one of the most original writers and irreducible hipanoamericanos. His writing, prickly, uncompromising, is one of the best examples of taking the dramatic and contradictory reality River Plate .
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