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In El astillero reach their maturity, the most compact glow of defeat, two remarkable inventions of Onetti: the fleeting antihero Larsen and the imperishable, but never new, city of Santa María; that port city that could just as well be the ghost of Montevideo or Buenos Aires, which is close to the Argentine city of Rosario but does not belong to any country. Again, in front of this pimp with mystical features - Larsen - a scoundrel as much sunk as saved; in front of this city that does not exist in reality but is true, of fiction but not of a toy, we can fall into the temptation of congratulating Onetti for presenting a stark piece of Latin America, without exoticism or prodigies, without using impotence and erosion to export as a cheerful and saleable folklore. P erhaps it is better not to congratulate him.