Biografía para encontrarme
2011
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During the last two years of his life, Mario Benedetti revised, rewrote, and reorganized the seventy-two poems that make up this book. Biograf a para encontrarme invites us to discover, or become reunited with, the literary essence of the Uruguayan author through his most intimate and moving poems. His verses conjure the awe inspiring power of the ocean, the timid light of an uncertain dawn, or paint the map of universal melancholy. The selection of poems the Uruguayan master left ready for his editors covers the writer's most significant poetic motifs: loneliness, nostalgia, death, love, beauty, uprooting. Pure Benedetti.
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Mario Benedetti
Author · 63 books
Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. He is considered one of Latin America's most important 20th-century writers. Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy.
