¿Nos traicionan nuestras propias huellas? ¿Qué diferencia hay entre un suicida inevitable y uno vocacional? A través de planteamientos como éstos, _Vivir adrede_ reflexiona sobre la vida. La vida de los que aman y los que matan; de los que creen en Dios o le dicen «adiós»; de los que abrazan y de los que oprimen; del condenado a muerte y de aquellos cuya existencia es la condena. Y lo hace con la profundidad que sólo pueden lograr las palabras más sencillas. Vivir adrede es un gran descubrimiento para los lectores de Benedetti y para aquellos que quieran conocer la obra del gran autor uruguayo. Una lectura que cautiva, entretiene y sorprende palabra a palabra.
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.
