Un hombre a quien le diagnostican una grave enfermedad, repasa su vida. Tras una consulta con el doctor, Mariano, el protagonista hace una lista mental de todas las cosas que ama de estar vivo. También expone, brevemente sus relaciones. Su mujer y su amante; sus hijos; las rutinas que ahora, le parecen tan dulces. Todos desde la perspectiva de una muerte que acecha y que lo lleva a analizarlo todo desde una nueva conciencia. Este cuento es el número 8 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.
