¿Por qué será que uno fabrica sus recuerdos / y luego los olvida? / ¿Por qué será que si beso tu beso / me siento renovado? Esta y otras preguntas tienen respuesta en cada poema de El mundo que respiro. Mario Benedetti asegura que, con suerte y con amores, se aprende; que debe cuidarse ese gajo de corazón que no traiciona; que no queda tiempo para el odio; que no hay que desperdiciar la risa; que hay que afinar el oído cuando se cruza el mar para escuchar ese piano salvado del naufragio.
Author
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.
