A journalist residing in Buenos Aires turns forty and decides to write his first book, but what will he really write about? About sad poets? Ex-girlfriends? Boats? The man struggles to find a starting point. He writes notes about events that happened, moving between memories, dreams, and dialogues, but he feels that the life he lived was richer and more intense than everything he wrote. Was it really richer?
In the novel “The Well,” Juan Carlos Onte writes, through a flowing text that breaks down the barriers between times and places, feeling and subconsciousness, about a hero with a strange nature, marginalized, angry for no apparent reason, and always in some kind of misunderstanding that makes him unable to communicate. with the others.
At the end of the novel, Onetti leaves us with a shocking feeling, as we wonder about the nature of the work we read: Was it a novel, a dream, or do you see it as mere delirium?
This research discusses language as a distinctive feature of a society (Syrian society), and monitors the changes that have occurred in it as the political, economic, cultural and social circumstances of this society change according to the context in which events take place, especially in light of the wave of protests that swept many countries in the Arab world in the context of what was called "Arab Spring"; The linguistic change witnessed by this society was shaped by the collective influence of those regions that witnessed these protests and is spreading thanks to the globalization of cultural communication that exists now.