En este relato el autor intenta dar cuenta de una geografía alterada, que es la un país, tras la dictadura y el horror. Después de años viviendo en su exilio parisino, un grupo de personajes se junta a rememorar cómo era su país antes. Cómo y qué recuerdan de ese Montevideo de sus nostalgias, cuando todavía eran libres. Además se introduce el drama de los despatriados; de los exiliados sin un lugar en el mundo, que sin trabajo ni papeles y con una historia trunca, anhelan su tierra. Este cuento es el número 4 de la Colección Benedetti Singles.
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.
