1982
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Ambientados del el medio urbano de Montevideo, pero también en París, Buenos Aires o Madrid, los cincuenta y tres y tres Cuentos de esta antología, seleccionados por el propio autor, giran en torno a una doble vertiente: la cotidiana peripecia de la pequeña burguesía ciudadana - funcionarios públicos, empleados de banca, periodistas deportivos - que anima la vida de la capital, y los estigmas de quienes sufrieron la dictadura cívico-militar en Uruguay entre 1973 y 1985. Con una prosa cargada de ironía, sobria y precisa, Mario Benedetti logra trascender la individualidad de sus modestos personajes, inmersos en existencias grises siempre acechadas por posibilidades dramáticas, para ofrecer al lector un cuadro veraz y complejo de la sociedad contemporánea.
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Mario Benedetti
Author · 72 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.
