| Summary: | In this article some features of the influence of American writer William Faulkner in the narrative of Juan Carlos Onetti’s is analyzed. This work represents a reading on three topics of systematic theology: faith, God and the flesh; as they appear in both authors’ work. In the first part, the theory developed by the Mexican Carlos Fuentes is taken as a framework of analysis that explores the three reasons why the authors of the Latin American boom adopted Faulkner’s narrative style: the myth of the fictional place, defeat and circular time as a way of eternal return. In the second one, examples of Faulkner’s influence in several authors of the so-called Latin American boom are offered, with a special reference of Juan Carlos Onetti’s. The work focuses on the novels La vida breve and El Astillero of Onetti’s and Absalom, Absalom! Of Faulkner’s. In the conclusions, we reflect on the way the issues of faith, God and the flesh are presented in the narrative of both authors, the kind of theology they reflect - Catholic or Protestant- and their points of convergence and divergence. Anhermeneutical methodology has been chosen.
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